April Is Officially Missional Church Conference Month
This is no April Fool's joke: Just about wherever you live in the U.S., there's a missional church conference near you this month! … [Read More...]
TransFORM Southwest Is Happening April 5-6 in Fort Worth, Texas
I'm grateful to Brian McLaren for putting out the invitation on his blog yesterday to TransFORM Southwest: Have you ever thought about starting a new faith community? Or ... linking up with others who are doing innovative things in local congregations? You should know about the TransFORM Network. TransFORM Southwest will gather April 5-6 in Fort Worth. … [Read More...]
Is This The Link Between Mission and Liturgy/Worship?
From Catholic missiologist John C. Sivalon in his book God's Mission and Postmodern Culture: … [Read More...]
Who ISN’T Missional?
Tony Jones has a great reflection on his blog today about labels such as "neo-Reformed," "Emergent," and "missional." … [Read More...]
A New Metric for Missional Engagement: Love
Jonathan Larson penned the musical Rent in 1994. One of the play's theme songs is "Seasons of Love." Of course, it's Valentine's Day today, so someone posted this video, and I was struck by the message of this song all over again … [Read More...]
How Is Fasting for Lent Missional?
Thomas Turner is inviting you to sign up for his email newsletter in exchange for a PDF download of his 2013 Everyday Liturgy Lenten Guide. I did it! It's a resource worth checking out and having on hand. Also, Chris Smith from the Slow Church blog has a great article … [Read More...]
Get Out The Front Door!
The Urbana (traditional) missions conference starts tomorrow in St. Louis, but several months ago, Dave Zimmerman, editor at InterVarsity Press, wrote an excellent article reflecting on calling and the interesting turn of a phrase from an Urbana promo video. … [Read More...]
Reading the Bible Slowly in Missional Community
In this new "Postmodern Negro" video for Sogo Media, Anthony Smith talks about the experience of his missional community in Salisbury, NC, called Mission House and something they're calling "Bible Lab," … [Read More...]
Who Wants to Spend 4 Hours Watching Reggie McNeal Talk About the Missional Church?
I do! And probably a lot more of you out there, as well. Well, we're in luck, because the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church recently hosted Reggie McNeal for a seminar on his book Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard of the Church. The almost four-hour presentation was recorded on video and is available to view on the NCCUMC website (or right here, see below), but only through the end of January 2013. … [Read More...]
The Challenge and Promise of Advent
From Ted Jennings, author of Transforming Atonement: A Political Theology of the Cross: "What we do is pretend that we have hope and joy and love. What we yearn for is what stands under those names ... Advent is a time when we have a chance — if we want to take the chance — of getting in touch with what we deeply yearn for and do not have ... for bodies to be healed, for the brokenness to be brought into wholeness, for the disasters of our world to turn into actual peace. ... … [Read More...]
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