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Indiana’s New RFRA Bill Hits Home on Indy’s Near Eastside
An article broke in the Indianapolis Star this afternoon, announcing that in response to Indiana's...
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Slow Church Stories: Salem Alliance Church
Salem Alliance made a bold decision. They decided not to move the church but instead...
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This is good work for churches to be involved in, working with neighbors to cultivate...
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Watershed Discipleship [Earth Day 2014]
Since today is Earth Day and since I reflected yesterday on some of the...
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Remembering Mr. Rogers.
Today marks the 11th anniversary of the death of Fred Rogers (aka, PBS's Mr. Rogers)....
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Is It Time for Post-Partisan Politics?
It's time for us to declare that Congress has made themselves irrelevant. We are now...
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Storytelling for the health of the church
[Adapted from a script I wrote for a video that IVP made for the Inhabit...
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LAST DAY to help Englewood win $25K to complete our gardens!
(John and I were both at the Inhabit conference over the weekend; it was...
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Help The Englewood Neighborhood win $25,000 to finish our Outdoor Nature Playspace!
Starting today, the Englewood Neighborhood on the Near Eastside of Indianapolis (where I live, work...
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Life On the Threshold: Reading the father of the rural life movement in the heart of the modern city
I have been talking about the work of Liberty Hyde Bailey a lot recently.... ...
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What is Missional Reading?
I was sitting down this morning to write the next post in the "Slow Church...
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Mr. Rogers and the Garden of Your Mind
Longtime readers of this blog may recall the fondness and respect Chris and I have...
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Alan Roxburgh – Call to the Parish [Video]
Here's a video clip of Alan Roxburgh talking about "The Call to the Parish" at...
May 11, 2012
Broke into the Old Apartment (This is Where We Used to Live).
I rarely listen to music on the radio, but the other day I was flipping...
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April 26, 2012
We Have Nowhere Else to Go, and Nothing Else to Do.
Yesterday, we took our homeschool co-op to the Indiana Repertory Theatre to see William Gibson's...
April 25, 2012
Slowly Seeking the Shalom of God.
Yesterday, John raised the question: what are the standards by which we make decisions and...
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February 08, 2012
Becoming Conversational #8 – Build relationships with other churches, locally and around the globe.
My ebook The Virtue of Dialogue: Conversation as a Hopeful Practice of Church Communities was...
February 02, 2012
Becoming Conversational #4 – Engaging our Neighbors more Intentionally.
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