the kingdom of god is like a flash mob

24Feb09

In the aftermath of a visit from Pete Rollins, i’m down for the count with influenza type A as I write. But no worries—it’s not virtually contagious. It was funny—Pete phoned me by accident yesterday, so we talked for a minute and he asked how I was doing. “I’m a bit [...]

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Tags: birmingham alabama, flash mob, ikon, kingdom of God, performance art, peter rollins, Shane Claiborne, Simple Way, The Living Room, Tom Livengood

i heart rural studio

28Jan09

Not that I have any regrets, but if I could do university all over again, it would have been in Alabama, and it would have looked something like this here…

And in the spirit of Mark Love, I believe this school gets at a definition of the word “missional.”

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Tags: Auburn University, kingdom of God, missional, rural studio, Samuel Mockbee

Thursday ditty: Derek Webb’s Savior on Capitol Hill

02Oct08

“You can’t vote for the kingdom.”
–Bobby Jackson, Oblate of the Order of St. Benedict

Or can you? What do you think?

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Tags: Derek Webb, kingdom of God, McCain, obama, Order of St. Benedict, politics

drum circle dancing to the kyngdm rhythm

23Aug08

this summer at our beach retreat, we talked about cultivating a kyngdm rhythm—getting in sync and in step with the movement of God in our day-to-day lives. so to help us get a sense for what the rhythm of God is all about, we had a drum circle. and how can you [...]

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Tags: Brian McLaren, kingdom of God, dance, disciples fellowship, drum circle, rhythm

[viii] emerging then, emerging now: Barton Stone and the post-restorationists

20Aug08

Horace the Restorationist spews forth his vitriol.
Just as Stone would confidently constitute a church with just a few, Newton (DF) has found value in smaller numbers. “I’m not sure that big is better. A lot of us came out of big and we just reveled in the small once we came out of [...]

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Tags: post-restorationist, barton stone, restoration movement, stone-campbell movement, missional, kingdom of God, disciples fellowship