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We are called to create a culture of sharing both in and outside the church. (click for image source)

Embodying Our Faith: Creating A Culture of Sharing

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 | Leave a response

GOD's answer to all that is broken was the Incarnation...

A Tea Party, An Occupation and People of the Incarnation

By Jason Fowler on 12/07/2011

Maybe the answer is not a tea party or an occupation or any protest movement after all. I believe we must give ourselves, as disciples of Jesus, to another movement – to His living Body – a people who are again re-incarnating a kingdom not of this world…

Posted in Features, Society and Culture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged christmas, culture, embodying our faith, incarnate, Jesus, occupy, politics, the Church, the incarnation, Whole-life Christian faith | 1 Response

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…

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

No empire can stop humble servants empowered by GOD's love

Empire vs. Love

By Bill Guerrant on 08/27/2010

In the 4th Century A.D. the Roman emperor Julian was concerned about the spread of Christianity in his empire…He wrote: “Nothing has contributed to the progress of the superstition of these Christians as their charity to strangers. The impious Galileans provide not only for their own poor, but for ours as well.”

Posted in Church & World History, Features, Justice | Tagged caring for the poor, christian faith, Christians, Church History, embodying our faith, history, Jesus followers, Julian the Apostate, Justice, love, margins of empire, mercy, mission, Poverty, Roman empire | 1 Response

Jesus said: 're-member' me (montage: J Fowler)

Justice at Christ’s Table

By Ricci Kilmer on 07/02/2010

I was missing communion, I was missing the body of Christ. And not just the spiritualized view of the Lord’s Table but the actual down to earth translation of what that meant. What does it mean to BE Christ’s body for people? What does it mean to say that his body is offered freely?…

Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged being the Body of Christ, christian faith, communion, embodying our faith, eucharist, food, incarnational faith, Intentional Christian Community, Justice, justice, Lord's Supper, Whole-life Christian faith | 1 Response

Community (screen capture from The Work of the People video)

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Christian Community

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 | 4 Responses

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By Jason Fowler on 04/22/2010

Free download of the book Everyday Justice, Earth Day, April 22: “As followers of Christ we are called to love our neighbors. But all too often our everyday choices support systems of injustice that oppress our neighbors instead…discover practical everyday ways we can seek justice instead.”

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