I sat for two hours a few weeks ago listening to the director of the Middletown Main Street project, Lorraine Goodman, share with me her vision for helping revitalize downtown Middletown. As she talked, she shared with me some things that I really...
I tread lightly in this post, because it is a mixture of thoughts from my mental interaction with teaching from Len Sweet, which may be part of a new book he is writing. I don’t want to spoil that, but I do want to think aloud about an idea...
I am doing a research project that need I need some help on. I am looking at the practices of contemporary monastic missional orders. If you know of anyone involved in this kind of movement and have contact information, I would love to contact them...
Chapter 2, Breaking the Missional Code Chapter two begins with a reminder that we are living in a day where a large portion of our North American Population have no Christian memory. Many of us today still find that hard to believe. I remember when...
Raw. ??We clicked because I drive a 1978 Chevy truck that gets single digits to the gallon and has a bacon air freshener and no functioning speedometer and because I fashion myself as the seld-appointed leader of a heterosexual male backlash in our...
In this video, I begin processing the idea the MIROR Concept applied to an individual.
This is part of Youtube Tuesdays. Today, I bring you the 2008 Hein-Fry Lectures from Luther Seminary. The annual Hein-Fry Lectures identify key theological issues facing the church. The lectures are designed to stimulate inquiry and discussion at...
Eight folks from our church drove 20 hours to spend the week in New Orleans at Global Maritime Ministries – which is a ministry to the port of the New Orleans. We support this ministry financially – the director, Philip Vandercook and I...
This continues our look at the book, The Starfish and the Spider. All catalysts draw upon similar tools. Genuine Interest in Others. To a catalyst, people are like walking novels. Information that most of us barely listen to is pure gold to a...