#AllLivesMatter is the insensible cry of a body that has grown numb to its own self. A healthy body is one in conversation with itself. The different parts of our body are constantly talking to each other, a conversation routed in … Read More
Chris and I can’t wait to get on the road for our upcoming tour, which we’ve dubbed the “Wild Goose Chase,” since we built it around the Wild Goose Festival. While the Speaking page gives a nice overview of our … Read More
Things may have seemed quiet here on the new Slow Church site — I see that our last blog post was published on May 10 — but behind the scenes Chris and I have been preparing for a busy summer. … Read More
A few months ago, during the holidays, I was wandering around Powell’s Books on Hawthorne. This isn’t unusual for me. While I love the Powell’s flagship location — the City of Books in downtown Portland, home to over a million … Read More
These thoughts were adapted from a talk that I did at Taylor University’s National Student Leadership Conference in February. They were originally posted on the V-3 Church Planting blog. British journalist George Monbiot has declared that we live … Read More
I have been deeply disturbed by how American culture, especially in the last few years, is driven by fear. I recently wrote a few thoughts on this for the V-3 Church Planting blog: One of the most pressing pastoral concerns … 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