Holy Ordinary On Mother’s Day last Sunday my wife and I, along with our two daughters, went to hear our friend Danielle preach at another church in Silverton. It was Danielle’s first sermon. Instead of standing behind a lectern she … Read More
Beyond the Windshield I spent a lot of time on the road in 2016. Too much time probably, considering that I was out there talking about the virtues of slowing down and staying put. During one 120-day stretch, I … Read More
One of the topics I’m asked to speak about most often at churches and conferences and in workshops is how God is helping churches see their neighborhoods with fresh eyes. But lately I’ve also been drawn to another aspect … Read More
Last week my wife and I reserved for the morning one of the meeting rooms at Broadway Commons. Over coffee and muffins, we took a “mini-retreat,” looking back at 2015 and ahead to 2016 through the lens of our most important … Read More
A couple years ago, I read an interesting article over at The Atlantic Cities called the “The Lifecycle of a ‘Cool’ Neighborhood.” The sociologist and historian Richard Greenwald writes in the article that “Declaring the death of hip neighborhoods seems to be an endless right of … Read More
Intervarsity Press has just released a video that I filmed with Tim Soerens (one of the co-authors of The New Parish) at the Wild Goose Festival this summer. Filming this was one of the most fun Slow Church interviews that I’ve … Read More