A Culture of Accountability
Each month, we post a series of blogs around a common topic. In this month’s series, we are excited to share some sneak peeks of NEXT Church’s forthcoming “Field Guide for Cultivated Ministry,”...
View ArticleBuilding Evaluative Muscles
Each month, we post a series of blogs around a common topic. In this month’s series, we are excited to share some sneak peeks of NEXT Church’s forthcoming “Field Guide for Cultivated Ministry,”...
View ArticleField Guide Preview: Mutual Accountability as Assessment
Each month, we post a series of blogs around a common topic. In this month’s series, we are excited to share some sneak peeks of NEXT Church’s forthcoming “Field Guide for Cultivated Ministry,”...
View ArticleThe Surprising Benefit of Evaluation
Each month, we post a series of blogs around a common topic. In this month’s series, we are excited to share some sneak peeks of NEXT Church’s forthcoming “Field Guide for Cultivated Ministry,”...
View ArticleTelling Stories That Matter
Each month, we post a series of blogs around a common topic. In this month’s series, we are excited to share some sneak peeks of NEXT Church’s forthcoming “Field Guide for Cultivated Ministry,”...
View ArticleField Guide Preview: Storytelling as Assessment
Each month, we post a series of blogs around a common topic. In this month’s series, we are excited to share some sneak peeks of NEXT Church’s forthcoming “Field Guide for Cultivated Ministry,”...
View ArticleAddressing the Evil That is Racism
Each month, we post a series of blogs around a common topic. This month, Jessica Tate and Jen James are curating a series featuring videos from National Gatherings and suggestions for how they might...
View ArticleWhat it Takes to Transform
Each month, we post a series of blogs around a common topic. This month, Jessica Tate and Jen James are curating a series featuring videos from National Gatherings and suggestions for how they might...
View ArticleWhat Does Belonging Look Like?
Each month, we post a series of blogs around a common topic. This month, Jessica Tate and Jen James are curating a series featuring videos from National Gatherings and suggestions for how they might...
View ArticleOn the Holy Way
Each month, we post a series of blogs around a common topic. This month, Jessica Tate and Jen James are curating a series featuring videos from National Gatherings and suggestions for how they might...
View ArticleRefugees and Resistance: Enacting God’s Mission in Liminal Spaces
by Rafael Vallejo, Ph.D. We commit to welcome and protect refugees and immigrants. – Part 3, Sarasota Statement 2017 This seven blog series will explore three questions: What lessons can World...
View ArticleJune Meeting
by Holly Haile Thompson “Mequantash eeya-yan koose-coy-oo…” Rememberest, thou, me as unto our Sacred Hills…” – a Shinnecock Prayer In Memoriam – To honor Kevin Tarrant, Hųųczii Zi, Bear Clan of the...
View ArticleSeeking Refuge, Crossing Borders
by Rafael Vallejo, PhD As human beings, we all inhabit the earth as a shared space – The Charter of Lampedusa 2014 >I begin this blog by thanking all my relations on the traditional lands of the...
View ArticleMission as Resistance and Struggle
by Rafael Vallejo, Ph.D. “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing”...
View ArticleDeep Rural
by Catherine Neelly Burton “Deep Rural” is a phrase I learned from the Reverend Charles Ayers. Raised outside of NYC and in New England, seminary educated on the West Coast, Charles has lived in the...
View ArticleDo Not Forget That You Are In A Holy Place
by Holly Haile Thompson In Memoriam – Covid-19 has claimed the life of the Rev. Dr. Cecil Corbett, Nez Perce; father, PCUSA pastor, former President and Chancellor of Cook College and Theological...
View ArticleHow Jesus Organizes and Agitates to Build Movements
by Chris Dela Cruz Why did Jesus take three years before going to Jerusalem at the end of his life? If you believe the analysis of the Biblical timeline, Jesus spent the majority of time gathering...
View ArticleRefugees in Liminal Spaces
by Rafael Vallejo, Ph.D. Surely the Lord is in this place and I did not know it – Gen 28:16 In this blog we shall unpack the concept of liminality as it relates to mission and migration. Liminality is...
View ArticleTelling Our Story: Resistance Literature and the Biblical Narrative
by Rafael Vallejo Ph.D Then you shall declare before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation,...
View ArticleRefugees, Resistance, and the Next Christianities
by Rafael Vallejo Ph.D When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it, they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another. He allowed no one to oppress them; for their...
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