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Nine years at Richview

Nine years ago, I started as pastor of Richview. My daughter was three. I didn’t have a son yet. We were young and I had more hair and was skinnier too. We’

Patience for the simple ways that work

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” Cerulean Sanctum on the problem with technological solutions to organic problems: Our churches launch some guaranteed program backed by the slickest marketing and the

How to Emerge Without Being Emerging

My latest column at Christian Week: Whenever someone tells me that the emerging church is a fad, I say that I hope so. As much as I appreciate some qualities of the emerging