Church

Learning from a new friend

Last Saturday night, Charlene and I had a chance to meet Don Crawford, executive pastor of Lambrick Park Church in Victoria, B.C. Don was in town for some other stuff. We grabbed

Writing our way to clarity

I have books by Scot McKnight , but it’s only recently that I started reading his blog. McKnight suggests that we approach books by authors like McLaren and blogs (I’m not going

Maintenance and mission

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” Is the task of a mission community to maintain itself? Organizational constraints quickly eclipse the theological assumption that particular communities exist for their mission.

Building in changing times

I met Stephen Mawdsley at Ron Martoia’s Velocity Conference last year. Stephen is a thinker and someone who understands some of the questions churches need to be asking in today’s context.