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Church as sharing community (click image for original source)

Church As Sharing Community

By Brian Boitmann on 03/24/2012

His remark caught me by surprise, “if the Church would do that, we wouldn’t need the rest of this.” It was a statement that has stayed with me even to now. The idea that simply by practicing a culture of sharing, recognizing God’s role in our provision for ourselves and others, the Church could change the world. That initially sounds a bit naive. But didn’t it already happen once?…

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Posted in Community and Ecclesia | Tagged christian community, church, Community and Ecclesia, culture of sharing, ecclesia, generous living, gift economy, God's Economy, Intentional Christian Community, materialism, shared life, sharing | 2 Responses

Will you be a part of the church-based community gardens movement?

Stewardship Gardening: A Values-Based Guide (resource)

By Shawn James on 11/29/2011

During the Summer of 2010 I had the opportunity to help design Good Ground Garden of First Presbyterian Church in Champaign, IL…Using Good Ground Garden as a case study, I sought to explore peoples’ conceptions of spirituality in the garden and how it shapes their actions, or vice versa…

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Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Food & Agriculture | Tagged Christian agrarian, christian faith, church, church-based community gardening, community gardening, Creation Care, ecclesia, embodying our faith, Environment & Creation, Gardening, gardening resources, GOD, Jesus, spirituality of gardening | Leave a response

Church-based sustainable agriculture (the other CSA)

Congregational Supported Agriculture (The Other CSA)

By Lee McBride on 09/27/2011

Traditionally, churches or faith congregations reach out and serve those around them, meeting spiritual needs, of course, but also dealing with physical needs in the community. Food is a great way to fulfill both needs…

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Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged caring for the poor, christian faith, church-based agriculture, community gardens, CSA, ecclesia, economy, farmers, farming, food and faith, food deserts, GOD, Jesus, local food, local food movement, ministry, Poverty, serve local, slow church, Sustainable Agriculture, urban farming | 4 Responses

Can we still be the Church without our temples? (montage: J Fowler)

Temple and Whirlwind: Rethinking The Church Building

By Jason Fowler on 02/02/2011

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?…

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Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Features, Society and Culture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged American religion, christian living, Christianity, church, church buildings, church finances, churchianity, Community and Ecclesia, ecclesia, economic crisis, economy, future of the church, GOD, Money & Economics, religion, temples, Whole-life Christian faith | 6 Responses

Will Campbell: voice of reconciliation

Will Campbell: Racism and the Church (EthicsDaily Video)

By Jason Fowler on 01/17/2011

Why are the local churches in America the last place to see racial reconciliation- even in 2011? Author, farmer, activist and “renegade Baptist preacher” Will Campbell talks candidly about racism and the church (a clip from EthicsDaily’s DVD ‘Beneath the Skin: Baptists and Racism‘).

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Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Justice, Society and Culture, Videos | Tagged Christianity, church, church culture, culture, ecclesia, Martin Luther King Jr, racial reconciliation, racism, racism and the church, religion, Will Campbell | Leave a response

GOD's holistic Kingdom can't be confined to buildings (montage: J Fowler)

Whole-Life Christian Faith: Out of the Box

By Jason Fowler on 07/19/2010

Jesus calls us to…a spirituality that is incarnated…Will we go beyond the four walls of our comfortable Christianity and start living as disciples of Jesus? As Garrison Keillor has said: “Give up your good Christian life and follow Christ”…

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Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Features, Life In The Spirit, Voice of One Calling | Tagged christian community, Christine Sine, churchianity, Community and Ecclesia, discipleship, ecclesia, ecclesiology, Jesus, missional, New Monasticism, radical faith, spiritual formation, Tom Sine, Whole-life Christian faith, whole-life discipleship | 2 Responses

The world outside our walls needs a pastor...a pastor in the form of a people.

Claudio Oliver: Who Needs A Pastor?

By Claudio Oliver on 03/26/2010

I believe the world outside our walls needs a pastor, not a professional one, but a pastor in the form of a people, a people trained “to be there”, while working and living their everyday lives…being the very presence of the Lord in the world…

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