A People’s History of Christianity
I was privileged to emcee a public conversation between Diana Butler Bass and Brian McLaren at the World Future Society conference last summer on the future of North American Christianity in...
View ArticleOpen or Closed Table Eucharist/Communion – WWJD?
The sacred meal that Christians celebrate, variously called ‘Eucharist’ or ‘Communion’ or ‘Lord’s Supper’ – is both the centerpiece of most Christian worship worldwide, and one of the most painfully...
View ArticleFlash Review: ‘Churched’ by Matthew Paul Turner
I don’t believe I’ve ever mentioned my friend Matthew Paul Turner‘s memoir Churched on the blog before. You should go out and get a copy. This flash review is going to live up to its name; I’m simply...
View ArticleOrganic Church: Full of Crap?
The Web has had been a-buzz with some conversation about my native church milieu, ‘organic’ church – aka house church or simple church. Folks meeting in homes, rather decentralized, certainly...
View ArticleJesus Freak vs. Jesus Freak
So Sara Miles‘ second ‘faith-y’ book, Jesus Freak, hits the shelves (and digital devices) soon…she and the folks at Jossey-Bass have released a video of Sara sharing some of her passion behind the...
View ArticleHarnessing Permission: The Power of Social Media (Theology After Google)
Here’s a KedgeForward presentation I gave last week to a Claremont School of Theology class last week via Skype. In it we discuss what Jesus’ comission has to do with new-media permssion, as well as...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Sara Miles – Jesus Says GO!
In the midst of all the (well-deserved) hoopla surrounding the release of Brian’s A New Kind of Christianity, it is literarily crucial not to lose sight of another, equally-important book that released...
View ArticleA Mosaic of Voices & Feast of Visuals
What if there was a Bible that combined a readable-yet-accurate text with breath-taking art from every continent and era, combined with meditative reflections both ancient and contemporary? What if...
View ArticleA Farmer’s Market in Heaven Where Everything Is Free and Everyone Is Welcome
Spencer Burke interviews Sara Miles about her work at the St. Gregory of Nyssa‘s Food Pantry and her new book Jesus Freak: Feeding, Healing Raising the Dead. It’s an inspiring interview – check it out!
View ArticleSend in the Clowns!
“The Kingdom of God is a party!” So says Tony Campolo (and Robert Farrar Capon, and John Crowder, and Ben Dunn, and Sara Miles, and Bruce Chilton, and Hafiz…need I go on?), but so few people believe...
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