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By Brian Boitmann on 02/04/2012
In a culture where a person’s success is determined more often by the the things that we have, and the amount of each of them that we have, establishing a culture of sharing turns that entire notion on its head…
Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Features | Tagged Anti-Consumerism, christian community, Church Life, Community and Ecclesia, Consumerism, culture of sharing, ekklesia, embodying our faith, generosity, God's Economy, hospitality, Jesus, kingdom living, kingdom of GOD, materialism, sharing |
By Tom Sine on 01/10/2012
“We have the opportunity to imagine a spectrum of new communities where, as the followers of Jesus, we can create new ways to be a difference and make a difference”…for times like these.
Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Features, Money & Economics | Tagged christian community, christian living, Community and Ecclesia, economic crisis, Intentional Christian Community, Intentional Community, new economics, New Monasticism |
By Jason Fowler on 12/03/2010
My latest favorite Cooking Up A Story video features the Benedictine Sisters of Mt. Angel, Oregon. They adhere to a monastic form of Christian community, balancing their days between prayer, community life, ministry to others and the fine art of making…Monastery Mustard!
Posted in Videos | Tagged balancing work and prayer, christian community, christian faith, Cooking Up A Story, cottage industry, food, ministry, Monastery Mustard, monasticism, mustard, Prayer, rhythm of life, rule of life, St. Benedict, video, work |
By Jason Fowler on 09/28/2010
“We’re living in a totalitarian society. It’s not fascist in a political sense, but in the way that it’s economically organized. It’s organized for profit and for marketing. In that machinery there’s no real freedom…”
Posted in Excerpts, Features, Money & Economics, Society and Culture | Tagged book exerpt, christian community, Christianity and culture, Community and Ecclesia, corporations, corporatism, culture, Douglas Rushkoff, economics, economy, history, industrial revolution, Intentional Living, Life Inc., localism, mental slavery, prophetic voices, Springs of Contemplation, Theology, Thomas Merton, work |
By Jason Fowler on 05/17/2010
I appreciate Jonathan’s down to earth perspective here on intentional Christian community and how we must practically embody our theology in the everyday nuts and bolts of life and relationships.
Posted in Videos | Tagged christian community, christian faith, Community and Ecclesia, embodying our faith, Intentional Christian Community, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, orthopraxy, The Work of the People, video, Whole-life Christian faith |
By Scott Bessenecker on 01/26/2010
What is missing from the Church sometimes is our ability to admit that we are all broken beggars clinging to a mysterious Savior whom we understand imperfectly and follow even less perfectly.
Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Features | Tagged Atheism, Bertrand Russell, christian community, christian faith, Church Life, Intervarsity Fellowship, Jesus, Jesus save us from your followers, Philosophy, Scott Bessenecker, Urbana, wholeness, Why I am not a Christian |
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