If you are a pastor, artist, or other church leader who feels connected to the post-evangelical space – which is to say that you have felt ecclesiologcally homeless in the larger church landscape. Not quite sure where you fit, but you’re not ready to give up on the church and you’re a part of reimagining…
Join other post-evangelical pastors and leaders October 12-13 to connect, learn from one another, and know that you’re not alone For a while now I’ve been connecting with pastors and leaders who feel like they don’t belong anywhere in the church landscape. The phrase we’ve borrowed from Jason Miller is that we feel ecclesiologically homeless….
One of my reflections every year is to spend some time reviewing the books that I read during the year. It gives me a picture of what I was processing and being challenged by. It’s a great catalogue of new thoughts taking root and new ideas that are percolating. The early Christian leader, Paul of…
Top Books 2018 This year I decided to try something different with my reading, I did my best to track every book I read with goodreads. And while I don’t think I nailed it perfectly, there are some I would forget to include or others that I would forget to update after I finished reading,…
So, apparently I accidently published a book today. It wasn’t an accident that it was getting published. We had been working on it for a while. I just didn’t realize it would actually happen…and that it would happen today. 4 years ago, I was tired of the way that I was seeing Christians engage in…
Recently, John Chandler interviewed me on his new podcast, SermonSmith. It’s a great podcast, interviewing pastors about sermon preparation. It’s such a significant part of the job, that not a lot of people are talking about. If you preach or teach on a regular basis, I’d highly recommend checking it out. On the podcast I…
Several times at Parkcrest, I’ve teased it that we’re going to spend a couple of weeks preaching on politics towards the end of October, at the height of the political season. Every time I bring it up, I’m shocked by the response and the discussions I end up having with people in the hallways and during…
This American Life is one of my favorite things to listen to. I listen to very little music, almost all podcasts, and This American Life is one that I never miss. This week’s episode is on Middle School. If you have any kind of influence with Middle Schoolers, as a parent, pastor, teacher, whatever, it’s…