Len Sweet‘s new book, So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church, is ripe with wisdom about what it means to live a faith that transcends attractional, colonial models. Introducing what he calls a “So Beautiful” or MRI manifestation of faith (where M = missional, R = Relational and I = Incarnational), Sweet offers…

I didn’t go to church as a kid. In fact, I didn’t believe in God until I was in my 30s. I can only speculate about what might have been better in my life had I grown up in church. Maybe I would have made better decisions in my teens and 20s. Maybe I’d have been…

I came across a blog post today that posed a simple question, What Books Influenced Your Christian Formation the Most? A number of thoughtful comments followed with lists of writers, some of whom I had read or heard of and others new to me. I responded to the post with the following comment (edited of course, since…

Woke up this morning still thinking about the impact on human beings of living through a time of Exponential Change.  I’m not referring to the masses. I have a difficult enough time figuring out where I fit in the world without attempting to speculate on the whole of humanity. Instead I am thinking about individual people.…

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