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

A Post-Restorationist Powwow [helenistic graffiti 4.0]

28Nov08

Now that the smoke has cleared, I thought I’d share a winsome invitation that my lovely assistant Helen handcrafted back in August. This fine piece of artwork was for an off-the-map conversation among missional-minded folk at ACU’s Summit this past September. Dubbed “A Post-Restorationist Powwow,” it turned out to be an inspiring evening with [...]

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seminary epiphany 2: the story of Christendom

03Nov08

I sensed that I while in seminary, I was finally learning how to learn. In part, this was because I was learning about the stuff that I actually desired to learn, namely the inbreaking of God in the form of a first century Middle-Eastern man and all the phenomena generated by that event. And [...]

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Tags: Alan Hirsch, apostolic, Christendom, David Wray, Michael Frost, missional, post-Christendom, spiritual formation, The Shaping of Things to Come, Tony Campolo

[i-x] emerging then, emerging now: Barton Stone and the Post-Restorationists

01Sep08

at the close of an epoch here at the priesthood, i have reposted our series “emerging then, emerging now” in sequence along with the pdf file below.  i enjoyed the dialog that this series generated.  thanks for entertaining me with your comments.  a few have mentioned using this paper in a class/conversation setting.  feel free [...]

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

28Aug08

“The past two years have been amazing, and I can’t remember the last time I felt so spiritually alive. God is constantly surprising us.”
–Melissa Jerkins of Immanuel Austin
To end our exploration of Stoneite commonalities on a lighter note, there is an old Restorationist joke that says the Churches of Christ don’t have bishops, just [...]

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