Embodying Our Faith: Creating A Culture of Sharing
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…
The Commonwealth of the Body
A woman’s body is not her own, a babies body is not her own…a man’s body is not his own—they are interconnected in a network of gifts—internal and external to the body. The human person is not private property…it is a commonwealth…
Christian Community: New Possibilities For Tough Economic Times
“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.
In Your Underwear: Life In Intentional Christian Community (book excerpt)
All communities are formed ultimately in their underwear. Until you get to that place of exposure, shock, and acceptance you are not really community. In his book Life Together, Dietrich Bonheoffer called it the shock of disillusionment…
Back to the Land: the View From Here
We slowly are settling back in to life among the mountains and streams again here in Bedford County, Virginia. Our life is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination – but we are abundantly blessed…
Year of Plenty (book review)
Year of Plenty is an insightful, profound yet humorous narrative that provides a refreshing perspective on the intersection between Christian faith and issues of economy, environment, community, consumption, justice and sustainability…
Temple and Whirlwind: Rethinking The Church Building
Church congregations were part of the same society that wanted supersized houses and the easy loans that made it possible…But now is it the end of a temple-based Christian spirituality in America? Would your community of faith continue on and thrive if the church building was eliminated?…
The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 3)
“A man who is in the traditional sense a good farmer is husbandman and husband, the begetter and conserver of the earth’s bounty, but he is also…a nurturer of life. His work is domestic: he is bound to the household…the household is the microcosm of all community.
Alan Hirsch: DNA of Gospel Movements [VERGE Videos]
This is a powerful series of short videos featuring Alan Hirsch, missiologist, a key figure in the missional church movement and author of Untamed: Reactivating A Missional Form of Discipleship, The Forgotten Ways and other books. Be warned- you may start asking dangerous questions after watching these…
Making Life Simple: A New Home Economy is Emerging
There is a whole new movement sweeping the Western world in which people everywhere are cutting back on their involvement in the cash economy, bartering, swapping, growing and cooking their own and generally learning to live with less…
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