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Are you part of GOD's mustard seed conspiracy?

A Global Conspiracy of Epic Proportions

By Jason Fowler on 05/03/2013

The Gospel of Jesus is the greatest underground plot we can get caught up in. It is a global conspiracy of epic proportions.

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Posted in Features, Society and Culture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged American culture, christian living, culture wars, GOD, gospel of the Kingdom, Jesus, mustard seed, mustard seed conspiracy, new creation | Leave a response

Food and Health: You are what you eat

Food and Health: You Are What You Eat

By Chérie Guerrant on 04/30/2013

When a conversation turns to food and someone mentions eating a more healthy, wholesome, natural diet, silence often ensues…

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Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture, Health and Body | Tagged body as temple, food and faith, food and health, health, healthy eating, natural health | 6 Responses

Christ Our Passover Lamb

Christ Our Passover Lamb

By Jason Fowler on 03/26/2013

May we return to this revelation that if we are to truly be His students and followers we must know Christ as our Passover lamb…

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Posted in Features, Theology, Voice of One Calling | Tagged christian faith, Hebrew roots of Christian faith, Jesus, Lamb of GOD, Passover | Leave a response

Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem: A Different Kind of Deliverance

A Different Kind of Deliverance

By Jason Fowler on 03/24/2013

There was a sense of joy and excitement as we traveled towards Jerusalem. We were all looking forward to the Passover feast but most of all…We were waiting for the moment when Yeshua would publicly reveal himself to all of Israel…

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Posted in Voice of One Calling | Tagged Bible, christian faith, GOD, history of Israel, Jesus, kingdom of GOD, life of Jesus, Passover, Scripture | Leave a response

Mourning A Native Son, Remembering A Hidden Wound

Mourning A Native Son, Remembering A Hidden Wound

By Jason Fowler on 03/22/2013

As I mourn the loss of Richard Twiss – I am reminded of this hidden wound – this need for a deeper forgiveness and reconciliation through Jesus who calls all nations before the throne of our Father and Creator…

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Posted in Features, Heroes and Prophets, Voice of One Calling | Tagged America, American history, Church History, Indigenous voices, Native Americans, reconciliation, repentance, Richard Twiss, Whole-life Christian faith | Leave a response

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Return To Our Senses by Christine Sine

Return To Our Senses: Re-Imagining How We Pray (Book Review)

By Jason Fowler on 02/03/2013

Instead of offering a formulaic approach to a successful prayer life, Christine invites us to reengage our spiritual imaginations – to rediscover the love of GOD and the joy of unceasing conversation with Him…

Posted in Book Reviews, Features, Prayer, Voice of One Calling | Tagged book, book review, christian living, GOD, Jesus, Prayer, spiritual disciplines, Whole-life Christian faith | Leave a response

Return To Our Senses: Reimagining How We Pray

Return To Our Senses: Reimagining How We Pray

By Christine Sine on 01/19/2013

Each moment is, I believe, pregnant with new possibilities, new concrete expressions of prayer waiting to be born. What are the creative ways that God might stir your imagination through this experience of closeness, into new expressions of prayer?…

Posted in Features, Prayer, Suggested Reading | Tagged christian faith, deeper faith, everyday prayer, Prayer, spiritual practices, Whole-life Christian faith, whole-life discipleship | 1 Response

It's not the end of the world. It's the beginning. What are you immanentizing?

The Beginning Is Near! Thoughts On Apocalypse and Anticipation

By Jason Fowler on 11/08/2012

We must develop a deeper Christian imagination of the future…How you view the end of the story deeply shapes and informs how you live your life now. We all have a view of the future. And from that view we live backwards in the present.

Posted in Features, Theology, Voice of One Calling | Tagged Christian hope, doomsday, end of the age, end of the world, end times, escatology, eschaton, Jesus, Theology | Leave a response

Matthew Sleeth's new book 24/6 renews the call to keep sabbath.

A Call To Renew The Sabbath: 24-6 By Matthew Sleeth (Book Review)

By Kevin Scott on 10/26/2012

24/6 is a powerful cultural critique, addressing consumerism, rootlessness, anxiety, and control…It offers a compelling vision of shabbat shalom– the peace and wellness that flows from a sabbath day of rest.

Posted in Book Reviews, Features | Tagged book, book review, christian living, sabbatarianism, sabbath, Whole-life Christian faith | 3 Responses

The new film on poverty in America: 'The Line'

The Line: Poverty In America – It’s Not What You Think (Film)

By Jason Fowler on 10/18/2012

Some of you may be like me who has recently had hours cut at your job or you may be wrestling with unemployment. For millions of us, the poverty line is always above our heads…The Line is a groundbreaking forty-minute documentary uncovering the emerging and entrenched faces of poverty in our country…

Posted in Features, Videos, Voice of One Calling | Tagged economic crisis, economics, film, Hunger, justice, Poverty, poverty in America, works of mercy | 1 Response

Who will you serve?

Political Idols and Election Day Communion

By Jason Fowler on 10/13/2012

I hope, no matter how you choose to vote, you will also choose to remember your citizenship in the Body of Christ – your membership in a different kind of ‘body politic’. Check out more about Election Day Communion and get involved…

Posted in Features, Society and Culture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged Jesus, kingdom of GOD, kingdom of GOD vs. kingdom of man, politics | Leave a response

What good is a lampstand without the flame of embodied love?

Relighting the Lampstand: Slow Evangelism and the Mission of GOD

By Jason Fowler on 09/18/2012

If we become enamored with building our lampstands but we have no flame of embodied love – then the world stays in darkness. As we relearn what it means to become rooted in one another’s lives and in the love of GOD which calls us out into our communities – the world will again have a witness…

Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Features, Voice of One Calling | Tagged christian living, church, Community and Ecclesia, ecclesia, evangelism, GOD, Gospel, Intentional Christian Community, Jesus, missional, Missional Church, slow evangelism, Whole-life Christian faith | 5 Responses

The end of the story is not Heaven but GOD's New Creation

Wendell Berry and the Re-Incarnation of the Church

By Jason Fowler on 09/01/2012

We have become exiles…We have forgotten that the summation of GOD’s plan of redemption is not us going to Heaven, but Heaven coming to Earth. The end of the story and our forgotten future is GOD’s New Creation.

Posted in Features, Theology, Voice of One Calling | Tagged church, culture, dualism, earth, embodying our faith, eschatology, GOD, Gospel, heaven, incarnational faith, Jesus, missional theology, new earth, the body, Theology, Wendell Berry, Whole-life Christian faith | 10 Responses

Agrarian Notebook

  • You Are Who You Eat
  • The Seed Bank of the Kingdom: A Sermon
  • From Farming to Wildlife Management
  • The Commonwealth of the Body

Book Reviews

  • The Intentional Christian Community Handbook (Book Review)
  • Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture by Ellen Davis (Book Review)
  • The Permanent Revolution by Alan Hirsch and Tim Catchim (Book Review)
  • Reclaiming Our Food (Book Review)

Books

  • Lament: Neil Postman and A Culture of Distraction
  • Shalom: An Invitation to Whole-Life Christian Faith
  • Health For Godly Generations (Book Excerpt)
  • In Your Underwear: Life In Intentional Christian Community (book excerpt)

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  • Rediscovering A Christmas Icon: Nicholas the Wonderworker
  • N.T. Wright on the Historical Resurrection of Jesus
  • Empire vs. Love
  • Waiting For His Spirit

Environment & Creation

  • Making Peace with the Land: Reconcilers Weekend at Duke (Sept. 21-22)
  • The Duke Summer Institute: Making Peace with the Land
  • A Cure For Nature Deficit Disorder
  • A Spring Sermon on the Resurrection

Features

  • The Final Word Is Love by Dorothy Day
  • Lament and Hope: The Need For A Sackcloth and Ashes Revival
  • Love Your Neighbor: Place over Program
  • Love Your Neighbor: Begin with Their Name

Food & Agriculture

  • Seeking shalom: Renewing the Regional Foodshed
  • Craig Goodwin’s Tables of Plenty: A Yearlong Exploration of Christian Food Practices
  • Dark Soil: Ending the Land Application of Biosolids In America
  • Stewardship Gardening: A Values-Based Guide (resource)

Heroes and Prophets

  • Claudio Oliver: Turning Grease Into Gospel (video)
  • Crashing the Idols: The Vocation of Will D. Campbell…(book review)
  • Sleepwalkers and Sinking Ships
  • Mr. Carver and Mr. Creator

Intentional Living

  • The Great Chicken Adventure [In Five Acts]
  • Life at a Human Pace in a Smaller Place
  • Self-Reliance vs. Self-Sufficiency
  • Life Without Money

Interviews

  • Making Peace With The Land: Interview with Author Fred Bahnson
  • Interview with Craig Goodwin, Author of Year of Plenty
  • Calling All Ragamuffins: Help Support the Rich Mullins Movie (Film Producer Interview)
  • Viral Hope: Interview With JR Woodward

Justice

  • Will Campbell: Racism and the Church (EthicsDaily Video)
  • Following Jesus: Befriending The Poor
  • Everyday Justice [Book Review]
  • Everday Justice: Interview with Julie Clawson

Learning As We Go

  • Independence, Crisis and Community Resilience
  • Reclaiming the Temple: Looking on to What’s Next
  • Reclaiming the Temple: Ponderings
  • Reclaiming the Temple: Day Four

Life In The Spirit

  • Pilgrimage and Thin Places: Seeking Intimacy With GOD
  • Reframing the Liturgical Year
  • Turning a Deaf Ear to the ‘American Way’
  • Whole-Life Christian Faith: Out of the Box

Money & Economics

  • Christian Community: New Possibilities For Tough Economic Times
  • Missing Christ: Confessions of a Christmas Shopper
  • GOD’s Kingdom Purposes and the New Economic Shift
  • Anchors In The Storm

Society and Culture

  • American Virtues and the Seven Deadly Sins
  • A Tea Party, An Occupation and People of the Incarnation
  • Living Beyond A Culture of Fear
  • Temple and Whirlwind: Rethinking The Church Building

Theology

  • An Eternal Revolution and A Crucified King
  • The Centrality of the Resurrected Jesus
  • Alan Hirsch: DNA of Gospel Movements [VERGE Videos]
  • Dear GOD

Topics

  • More With Less: A Post-Christmas Reflection
  • When All Else Fails Try Jesus
  • The Prayer Movement and the Renewal of All Things
  • Becoming People of a Place

Videos

  • Landfill Harmonic (Trailer)
  • Michah Bournes: Acts 17 and Turning the World Upside Down (Video)
  • Paul Sparks: Salvation In The Neighborhood and the Great Reversal (Videos)
  • N.T. Wright: Mending Furniture and The New Creation [Video]

Voice of One Calling

  • The Glory and Muck of Christmas
  • The Real War On Christmas
  • Deep Roots and Wild Storms
  • I Ride A Bicycle To Bring the Cows Home (a poem)

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