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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,”...

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Building 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,”...

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Field 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,”...

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The 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,”...

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Telling 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,”...

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Field 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,”...

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Addressing 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...

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What 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...

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What 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...

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On 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...

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Refugees 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...

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June 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...

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Seeking 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...

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Mission 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”...

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Deep 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...

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Do 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...

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How 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...

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Refugees 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...

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Telling 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,...

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Refugees, 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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