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- September 2010 (1)
- August 2010 (5)
- 30: The Welcoming and Mutually Transforming Community Among the LGBTQ: An Example and Some Questions (22)
- 26: The Bad Habit of “Going to Church”: On Training Ourselves Out of The Bad Habit of Going to Church (32)
- 18: The Timeless Hauerwas: Some More Quotes and some of the things I continue to learn from “the man.” (8)
- 12: The Witness of a Transforming Sexually Redemptive Community: Mission and GLBTQ Relations#3 (29)
- 04: On Why Neo-Reformed Theology is Not a Third Way: Deep Church by Jim Belcher (20)
- July 2010 (5)
- 28: Why Pre-Labeling A Church Community’s Stance on Same-Sex Relations is a Bad Idea: Mission and GLBTQ Relations #2 (33)
- 22: The Mission and GLBTQ Relations: Three Commitments of a “Welcoming and Mutually Transforming” Missional Community #1 (25)
- 13: The Diversity We Seek: The Danger of Manufactured Pre-Determined Diversity (9)
- 06: The Emerging View of the Church in Society: Alan Hirsch/Michael Frost and the Danger of De-Ecclesiologizing The Church in Mission (27)
- 01: Doctor of Ministry in Missional Church: Check this out (3)
- June 2010 (6)
- 28: The Emerging View of Salvation: Brian McLaren and the Danger of De-eschatologizing the Kingdom (14)
- 24: The “Emerging” View of Scripture: Pete Rollins and the Danger of DeIncarnationalizing the Word (26)
- 22: The Three Potential (ideological) Traps of Emerging Missional Theology: Can Rollins, McLaren and Hirsch Avoid Them? (12)
- 15: On How Flat Leadership Works for Mission: The Three P.’s (24)
- 06: “One More Empty Church”: On the Header of this Blog (5)
- 03: The Caffeine Free Diet Coke: A Metaphor for Evangelicalism in our Day? (19)
- May 2010 (6)
- 31: What is the Gospel? The promise of J R Woodward’s Viral Hope (3)
- 25: Untamed: Reactiving a Missional Discipleship by the Hirsch’s: A Review and A Question (11)
- 20: Bob Hyatt On Missional Discipleship: A Report From EcclesiaNet Church Planter Training (14)
- 17: Getting Ready To Roll (4)
- 10: Do You Trust an Author on the Church Who Leaves His/Her Church? (46)
- 04: Some Quotes I Need To Remember: Help in understanding the Mission (8)
- April 2010 (6)
- 28: “Being Missional” and the GLBTQ #2: Mission and the Nature of Desire (24)
- 21: Church Turnover and the Work of Cultivating the Kingdom (9)
- 12: “On Being Missional” with the Gay/Lesbian Peoples Among Us (75)
- 06: Dude – we’ll miss you: Michael Spencer 1956-2010 (2)
- 05: “Nothing Can Separate Us From the Love of God” (1)
- 01: On Making Justice Local and the Upcoming Evolving Church Conference (5)
- March 2010 (10)
- 29: Woman and Men in Ministry Together: Affirming Women and Transforming – The Missional Way (22)
- 22: 6 Reasons Not To Go To Church (27)
- 19: Lent @ “the Vine” (0)
- 16: The church’s role within the Missio Dei – Yes we still need the church. (13)
- 16: Amazing Opportunities to Learn: Church Planting, John Franke and other Missional Assundries (2)
- 12: A NEW KIND OF INCLUSIVITY: Before I Talk about Women in Ministry and GLBT Relations (18)
- 08: Missional Soteriology: Does the Missional Vision Change How People Get Saved? (21)
- 03: Women in Ministry and the Gay/Lesbian Question: The Post-Evangelical Terrain As I See It (24)
- 01: Prologue to Missional Discussions (22)
- 01: A Church Planting Bootcamp – and A Free Seminary Education (4)
- February 2010 (5)
- 22: McLaren’s New Kind of Christianity – There’s a parting of the ways here – and that’s alright – Towards a New Missional Nicaea (Someday) (36)
- 19: Preaching for the Missional Church: One More Tidbit from Dallas Willard at the Ecclesia Network National Gathering (13)
- 17: Dallas Willard on Missional Evangelism – Willard at Ecclesia Network National Gathering (11)
- 11: Stuck between Mohler and McLaren: The Incarnational Approach to Leading in Our Disagreements (34)
- 05: Mere Churchianity: Michael Spencer’s Upcoming Book (1)
- January 2010 (7)
- 31: Not A “Franchise”: Steps to Seeding a Missional Community in the Neighborhood (21)
- 29: The State of the Union and the State of the (American) Church: The Incarnational Witness to Peace (2)
- 22: Emergent, Organic, Missional Church: Methinks We Worry Too Much (18)
- 18: …until justice rolls down like waters: Contrasting Martin Luther King with pres. Obama (4)
- 13: 8 Things You Should Notice At a Missional Sunday Gathering (18)
- 05: The Tactic of “Thank- you – but I would prefer not to”: On the Societal Pressures that Undercut Mission in America (20)
- 05: Countdown to The Missional Learning Commons!: Bring Some Coffee! (3)
- December 2009 (5)
- 30: Fifty Years of Church Planting: the Story as I See It… (1)
- 23: Top Ten Posts 2009: Merry Christmas and a Look Back at This Blog (7)
- 15: Why is the Emergent/Missional Church So White?: Soong-Chan Rah’s Next Evangelicalism and Why It Doesn’t Go Far Enough (in Exposing White Western Cultural Captivity) (19)
- 08: Tim Keller’s “Country Parson”: The Small Dying Urban/Suburban Church Vs. The Small Country Church as a Training Ground For Mission (11)
- 01: “You Must Admit You Are A Sinner!”: Why This Doesn’t Work in Post Christendom Evangelism (17)
- November 2009 (4)
- 20: The Collateral Damage of Video-Venues: A Challenge To All Video Venue Multi-Site Church Leaders – DO A SURVEY! (7)
- 17: ANNOUNCING 3rd Annual MISSIONAL LEARNINGS COMMONS: A Missional Non/Conference Jan 8-9 2010 (10)
- 10: Can Missional Be Multi-Site? 3 Characteristics of Missional Preaching (26)
- 04: IMAGES THAT HELP US THINK ABOUT THE NEW SITUATION WE ARE IN #1: The Image of “THE OTHER” and Post Christendom Evangelism (12)
- October 2009 (4)
- 28: Bloggage I Can Sympathize With and More (i.e. With Commentary) #1 (12)
- 20: A Warning List For Those Who Would Join a Missional Church Gathering (13)
- 14: “Ed and Me” Part 2, and 3 and Beyond (5)
- 07: Bi-vocational – or – go on staff at a large church: Suddenly bi-vocational ministry doesn’t look so bad? (41)
- September 2009 (3)
- 29: Missional Discipleship – The Struggles of Leading a People into the Concrete Everyday Missional Life (13)
- 21: The Numbers Do Not Lie: Christendom is consolidating into the Mega Church (19)
- 08: IF I JUST PREACH A GOOD SERMON- THEY WILL COME: Three Dying Myths (of Christendom) About Preaching (36)
- August 2009 (4)
- July 2009 (4)
- 30: The Seven Indispensable Virtues of a Missional Leader (15)
- 19: I’m in Canada – for a week – relaxing. (2)
- 13: The Witness of the Church to the Gay/Lesbian Peoples – Miss California U S A and the Politics of Sexual Redemption (21)
- 07: Book Clubs For The Homeless – On The Relational Nature of God’s Justice (5)
- June 2009 (3)
- 23: The Christendom Nostalgia – Leading us out of it by using the words of Billy Graham (10)
- 16: Missional Theology: Towards a Theology that Shapes a People for Mission – A new course offering at Northern (10)
- 10: THE THREE BIGGEST FEARS WE MUST FACE WHEN PLANTING A CHURCH/ I.E. SEEDING A MISSIONAL COMMUNITY (9)
- May 2009 (4)
- 27: “The Gospel Coalition” and Post-Christendom: Will it be a Coalition or an Expedition? Some Reflections and Concerns (49)
- 16: The Bad Habits of Christendom Evangelism – “The Romans Road,” The Four Spiritual Laws, Evangelism Explosion and the Bridge Illustration (WTWNC 3) (13)
- 07: Should We Chase After Christians Who Come to Our Sunday Gathering When They Do Not Feel Welcome?: When They Will Not Come 2 (16)
- 04: J R Woodward’s “Good News” Series: Life After Easter in the Suburbs (4)
- April 2009 (5)
- 29: “Let’s Take a Year and Just Do This Ourselves First”: Initiating Missional Change (7)
- 18: A Mystagogy for the Missional Church (5)
- 16: Skye Jethani’s “Divine Commodity”: The economic crisis as opportunity for “creative dislocation” in the church (9)
- 08: Oscar Romero: Some Spiritual Formation for Church-Planters during Holy Week (4)
- 03: Tony Jones Asks: Are Academic Theologians Useless? (14)
- March 2009 (4)
- 26: Church Planting Assumptions of the Neo-Reformed: Some Observations for Testing (26)
- 26: Church Planting in Post Christendom – Is There Such a Thing? Fuller’s D.Min Course (5)
- 20: Things that Make You Go “Hmmmmmm” (10)
- 06: WTWNC Instilling Missional Habits in a Congregation – As You Walk Among Your Community (34)
- February 2009 (5)
- January 2009 (6)
- 31: Stanley Hauerwas and the Evolving Church Conference 09 (2)
- 23: Reformed Missional versus Anabaptist Missional versus Pragmatic Missional (21)
- 16: Why the Missional/Emerging Church is so Young and White (38)
- 08: Missiology Precedes Ecclesiology: The Epistemological Problem (31)
- 07: Ed and Me (5)
- 05: Missional Tribe and the Missional Non/Conference: The Astonishing Power of Networking on the Web (2)
- December 2008 (7)
- 31: Against Decaffeinated Belief: The Sunday Gathering as Missional (23)
- 25: End of the Year Missional Linkage – And to All a Good Night (2)
- 18: A Missional Non/Conference: Calling All Missional Leaders/Practicioners Together For Encouragement and Cooperative Learning (0)
- 15: ANNOUNCING A MISSIONAL NON/CONFERENCE – SEEDING MISSIONAL COMMUNITIES A Learning Commons January 3rd 8-4 p.m. (9)
- 11: Church Planting in Post-Christendom – Fuller D.Min. (10)
- 08: The Attractional/Missional Debate Won’t Stop: Three Take-Aways (14)
- 04: THREE QUESTIONS FOR THE ATTRACTIONAL PRACTICIONERS WHO QUESTION THE FRUIT OF MISSIONAL: A Response to Dan Kimball (38)
- November 2008 (3)
- 22: The 3, the 12 and the 120 (12)
- 13: How Do Christians Grow and Mature? (23)
- 07: Barack Obama and the Empire: Where Do We Go From Here? (17)
- October 2008 (6)
- 30: Please Lord, Don’t Let Me Get Pragmatic: Spiritual Formation for Missional Leaders (10)
- 21: THE QUESTIONS HAVE CHANGED (18)
- 16: To All Missional Artists Seeking to Incarnate (enculturate) the Gospel: Take a Look at Andy Crouch’s "Culture-Making" (3)
- 13: The U.S. Is Broke: The End of Amero-Centric Global Missions and Other Questions? (6)
- 07: On Not Forsaking Denominations: Can Established Traditions Birth Emerging Churches/Missional Communities? (11)
- 02: The Idol Hath Fallen – the Financial Crisis and the Reshaping of the Landscape for Mission (13)
- September 2008 (4)
- 23: "The Numbers Are Going Up But Something Doesn’t Feel Right" (13)
- 15: Conversion a casualty of Missional Theology? My Recent CT Article (10)
- 08: Can Evangelicalism and Capitalism (Not) Get Along? The Upcoming Ancient-Evangelical Future Conference (10)
- 02: How "Not Voting" Could Help Subvert American Racism: A Response to Anthony Smith’s post on Emergent Village (15)
- August 2008 (6)
- 31: A "Heads Up" on the Iraq War (2)
- 27: When Liturgy Goes Bad: Constantinian Liturgy in a Post-Constantinian World (23)
- 26: Prof. David Scholer Passes Into Glory (3)
- 20: "When They Will Not Come" – Community: The anti-attractional process of beginning a church with community (26)
- 13: Vacation and Books (6)
- 05: When They Will Not Come (17)
- July 2008 (5)
- 30: Ed Stetzer and Phillip Nation’s "Compelled By Love": An Interview (3)
- 24: "Guy Churches": The Problem with Evangelical’s Obsession with Contextualization and the Alternative – Incarnation (22)
- 21: "Not Voting" as an Act of Christian Discernment : Calling the Emerging Church Into a Different Kind of Faithfulness (25)
- 12: The Middle In: The Unique Missional Opportunity (16)
- 07: Missional Communities are to Mega-Churches as Monastic Orders were to Cathedrals (20)
- June 2008 (4)
- May 2008 (4)
- 27: "Life on Life" leader mentorship (3)
- 20: WTWNC Looking for the poor in the Suburbs: Ten ways to engage mission in the suburbs. (19)
- 13: More on Obama, Zizek, Wright and the church in America (1)
- 08: The Emerging/Missional Church – "They don’t have converts" Why Mark Driscoll Misses the point (52)
- April 2008 (6)
- 28: "I feel like I’m a project to you" (17)
- 23: Missional Church and Liturgy? (16)
- 15: Why Emergent Needs the Hauerwasian Mafia (33)
- 10: The Trinity and Missional Theology: I’m Off to the Wheaton Theology Conference (1)
- 08: Jesus Manifesto Writing Competition: Stepping into the Wind (1)
- 05: SOME CHURCH PLANTING TALK – BETWEEN JAMIE AND MYSELF (7)
- March 2008 (7)
- 31: EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE or EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED? 2 My questions for Brian McLaren on His View of the Kingdom (28)
- 26: EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE or EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED? A Question for my friend Brian McLaren on the eve of his DeepShift book tour coming to Chicago (7)
- 24: Christ in Risen! (1)
- 22: "It is finished" (John 19:30) (2)
- 19: An Online Course in Post Modern Theology? (6)
- 12: THE BRIDGE ILLUSTRATION 3: LAST WORDS – TOWARDS A REVISED MORE MISSIONAL EVANGELISTIC TOOL (WAY OF INITIATION) (4)
- 06: The Bridge Illustration: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone? 2 (29)
- February 2008 (4)
- January 2008 (4)
- 29: ON THE ONES WHO WOULD GO AND SEED MISSIONAL COMMUNITIES (1)
- 23: Leadership’s Hermeutics Quiz: Why I don’t like being a liberal (3)
- 16: ON APOLOGETICS, SALVATION, DECISIONS AND HELL: An Interview with a few Emerging types at a local Baptist church. (15)
- 08: On the Way of Generative Conflict – Leadership as Mutual Submission (Eph 5:21) (9)
- December 2007 (7)
- 28: Confessions of a Missional Pastor (Wannabe?) – Looking Back on Some Frustrations With Time (13)
- 21: Hanging with Alan Hirsch for a Great Two and Half Days!: Come If You Can (6)
- 17: "Seeding Missional Communities" Learning Commons (2)
- 14: THE "REVEAL" RADIO INTERVIEW For Those Who Are Interested (6)
- 13: The WMBI REVEAL Interview: What I Would Have Said If I Had had the Chance (12)
- 11: Evangelism or Witness? 2: WHY OUR CHARACTER MATTERS (10)
- 04: Evangelism OR Witness?: The Necessary Turn for the Missional Church 1 (16)
- November 2007 (4)
- October 2007 (5)
- 26: PREACHING ABOUT MONEY (8)
- 18: On Conversations That Never Land: Clarifying a Few Things on Emergent Theology and Deconstruction (22)
- 12: Faith and War: Three Christian Perspectives (3)
- 10: The Missional Order of St Fiacre at Life on the Vine. (13)
- 04: Seeking Good Soil in the Burbs – Neil Cole on Being Missional in the Burbs (14)
- September 2007 (5)
- August 2007 (4)
- July 2007 (4)
- June 2007 (6)
- 25: 10 Signs That Christendom May Be Over (7)
- 23: The Midwest Emergent Gathering: A Reminder (0)
- 18: We All Need Kevin Vanhoozer’s "EveryDay Theology": A Book Review (6)
- 13: On Resisting Oligarchic Leadership in the Emerging/Missional Church (14)
- 08: The Current State of Cultural Engagement: Why We Need Kevin Vanhoozer’s "EveryDay Theology" (25)
- 02: Up/rooted.north gathers Thursday, June 14th with Pernell Goodyear. (3)
- May 2007 (4)
- April 2007 (6)
- 29: Robert Webber: Thank-you and We’ll Miss You (10)
- 26: THE ROLE OF WORK & CAREER IN MISSION: MISSIONAL COMMUNITY AS THE MEANS TO RESIST MAKING WORK FULFILLING (wink, wink) (20)
- 19: IT IS MORE DIFFICULT: WHY MISSIONAL COMMUNITY IS MORE DIFFICULT AND WHY I LOVE IT (35)
- 16: Things To Come – Checking In on Some Upcoming Things Going On (0)
- 09: Why are emerging church people drawn to deconstructive theology? (28)
- 03: Holy Week Beckons (2)
- March 2007 (6)
- 26: The Evolving Church Conference 2007 Blows My Mind (6)
- 21: HOW NOT TO MAKE JUSTICE INTO A PROGRAM AT YOUR LOCAL CHURCH #4 (11)
- 20: HOW NOT TO MAKE JUSTICE INTO A PROGRAM AT YOUR LOCAL CHURCH #3 (8)
- 14: HOW NOT TO MAKE JUSTICE INTO A PROGRAM AT YOUR LOCAL CHURCH #2 (8)
- 11: A Gathering with Brian McLaren – The Brady Lectures (0)
- 07: HOW NOT TO MAKE JUSTICE INTO A PROGRAM AT YOUR LOCAL CHURCH – CHANGING THE WAY "WE SEE" JUSTICE IN THE LOCAL CHURCH (13)
- February 2007 (5)
- 27: Dallas Willard – Can Social Justice Be Just Another Works-Righteousness Gospel? (18)
- 21: Doug Pagitt is Coming!! and other things (4)
- 14: Some Reasons Why the Lone "Senior Pastor" Might Not Make Sense Anymore (39)
- 03: Pluralism and the Witness of an Open Community: Take 2 (17)
- 03: Pluralism and the Witness of an Open Community (5)
- January 2007 (5)
- 24: On Mission Statements, Core Values and the Power of Three Adjectives (26)
- 19: Who Gets To Narrate the World? and other questions (0)
- 17: Ray Aldred Comes to Up/Rooted!!! (0)
- 10: When is a Story Not A Story? : Willowcreek and Acrobats on Christmas Eve (50)
- 02: THE TEN MOST COMMENTED-ON/LINKED-TO AND/OR CONTROVERSIAL POSTS OF 2006 (FROM THIS BLOG) (6)
- December 2006 (3)
- November 2006 (6)
- 25: What Have the Arts to do with Missional?: Contrary Thoughts on Being Incarnational 2" (26)
- 22: Scot McKnight comes to Up/rooted (3)
- 22: Last Call for the AEF Call Conference (0)
- 15: Sometimes You Just Need a Building? : Contrary Thoughts on Being Incarnational 1 (30)
- 06: A Warning List For Those Who Would Join a Missional Church Gathering (48)
- 01: Where I’ve been – Where I’m going (11)
- October 2006 (2)
- September 2006 (3)
- August 2006 (5)
- 31: What Jerry Falwell, Zizek and Obesity Can Teach us About Our Evangelical Holiness Codes (15)
- 24: My Trip to Trinity – Where is the church now and where should it go? (8)
- 18: "Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?" by James K. A. Smith – A Review-Interview (5)
- 14: Changes to Blog Forthcoming (5)
- 14: I’m Back! Vacation as a Monastic Practice (3)
- July 2006 (2)
- June 2006 (3)
- May 2006 (3)
- April 2006 (4)
- 26: Why Fundamentalism and Liberalism Are Two Sides of the Same Coin – Where All Emerging Conversants Must Go (31)
- 15: Holy Saturday – The leadership of Christ into the Tomb (8)
- 10: "I’m willing to die for it" versus "The Bible is Inerrant": How Best to Speak About the Authority of Scriptures in our Times – THEOLOGICAL ISSUE NO. 1 (4)
- 08: For "Inerrancy" Post Above : Post Comments Here (10)
- March 2006 (2)
- February 2006 (3)
- January 2006 (6)
- 31: A Warning From Jerome Bettis’ Mother!:On the Use of Technology in Worship (10)
- 24: Intentional Hospitality Amidst the White-Washed Isolation of the Suburban Malaise: Rantings on Being the Church in the Suburbs (17)
- 16: On the Church Remembering Martin Luther King (1)
- 13: What I learned from Scot McKnight and His Review of the Great Giveaway (5)
- 11: Emergent Church and Post-denominationalism (13)
- 05: Should Emergent Church Trade Modernity for Postmodernity? (12)
- December 2005 (5)
- November 2005 (10)
- 29: Leadership and Church-Planting Amidst the Post Christian Cultures (5)
- 23: Is Charismatic Experience the Way Forward in Postmodernity : No and Yes!! (4)
- 16: Why Worship Takes Practice (7)
- 11: On Being an Evangelical and Staying One (0)
- 10: Planting a Church or Writing a Book : Which is Harder? (3)
- 08: Jeff Stout or Hauerwas … Which Way Forward for the Emerging Church? (2)
- 07: A Plea for a Ban on Guerilla Logic in Theological conversations. Promoting Conversation among Evangelicals in Postmodernity (4)
- 01: On beginning another blog… (1)
- 01: About (1)
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