We recently spent a week in Minneapolis with Source and the Fallout Arts Initiative, in the most diverse neighborhood in the United States.
I recently read Follow Me to Freedom: Leading As an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne and John Perkins, and as I expected it was a wonderful read.
Recently, the TransFORM network for missional community formation launched. It will be a fantastic resource for people who want to start missional communities, or who have already started them, by giving encouragement and resources to make them sustainable.
As I said earlier, this year's Cornerstone Festival had a lot of great seminars.
Several years ago, a great friend of mine introduced me to 24-7 Prayer International when the organization was just a couple of years old.
Recently, in both Christian and secular settings, there has been a lot of talk about the predicament and future of the American church in general, and evangelicalism in particular.
I hope you've had a wonderful St. Patrick's Day. In the last couple of years, I've gotten to know people with a strong interest in Celtic spirituality, and have learned some wonderful things.
To take a small break from my current series, like most of us I've been thinking a lot about the screwed toilet scum really awful status of the American economy and what caused it and what is being done about it.
Before I moved to Atlanta, I spent the last period of my residence in Lakeland, Florida as part of a house church.
When I was in high school and began getting to know Jesus, it was trendy to compare sharing one's faith to having a cure for cancer that the world desperately needed.
Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.
"That is the question at the heart of this crisis, and as we struggle together to answer it, I am convinced that what we don’t need is bigger buildings or fancier sound equipment, better pastors or more parishioners, newer ministries or deeper pockets. What we need is bigger banquet tables."
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