I am totally amped that my new book is already available at a reduced pre-order price. If you have not gotten a chance to, please check it out: amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and ChristianBook.com Here is one comment I received just today from someone who read an Early Reader Copy of the book: “Neighbors and Wise Men is the […]
New Book "Welcome to the Table- Post-Christian Culture Saves a Seat for Ancient Liturgy"
This book addresses the following question: What hope does Eucharistic liturgy bring to the future of churchplanting within the increasingly post-Christian urban centers of the Pacific Northwest and beyond?
"Hudson and the Urinal." A story from fatherhood
This one is pure enjoyment.
Questions: Telling my Spiritual Stories
Telling my spiritual stories… For each of the following Gospel questions think through your personal story as tohowyoudiscovered its reality. In other words, what is the story (process your wounds as well as the epiphanies) of how God convinced you of each conclusion’s validity in the tangible, sweaty, nitty-gritty of life. (note: you may not […]
Life of Faith in Post-Christian Culture
Here is an audio link from a lecture I recently gave on communicating and living within Post-Christian culture as a follower ofJesus. The thoughts here flow from my recent Doctoral studies on Post-Christian culture and our ever integrating life in Portland’s inner-Eastside.
Initiate a Reconciled Life
Here is a story from one of our chapters in the B@Peace Project. Hear about Rob’s commitment to foster peace with some of the most important people from his story.
Survival Scripts
I met two men on the streets of downtown Portland tonight. I met the first man as my wife and I had just left the Mission Theater. We were walking down Glisan street, looking for a light-rail station. He was remarkably unsurprising, at least for that time of night in that part of town. He […]
Not Joking Around
There is an old joke. It goes like this: A group of friends are hiking through the woods. They come upon a bear a ways up the path. The bear starts to charge and all the friends turn to run; all of them that is, except one.
DO SMALL: A Short Feature on a Parish Orientation
The organizing principle is a geographically based ecclesiology. It is a pressing passion that the hope of the mission of Jesus Christ may very much be found in getting a “smaller” vision: a clearly defined neighborhood, a walking-world, a parish. The fact of the matter is: a mission that is too large (“we want to […]
Weed-Eater of the Soul
I was working in my yard this weekend. I gave up my gas mower some time ago. Did you know that a gas lawn mower puts out like four times as much pollution as a car? Yikes! My weed-eater though… I have not been able to give it up. I can’t explain it. Maybe it […]