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Interview with Brad Somers, Church Planter

Brad Somers is a church planter who founded PAXNorth in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I first met Brad back in 2008 at a church planting conference in New York City. I’m grateful to

Review: Evangellyfish

There were moments in reading Evangellyfish that I felt guilty. For one thing, it’s a book with violence (one pastor punches another) and sex — not graphic sex, but sex nonetheless. I also

Take a Risk

These words, particularly the last two sentences, have stuck with me since I first read them years ago: Do a start up church. Be a tentmaker. Build communities. Small groups. Neighborhood churches. Be

Saturday Links

Paradigm Shifts for Healthier and Sustainable Churches What you’re about to read are raw ideas (in no way conclusive) in terms of paradigm shifts. There are four main shifts: 1) incarnation over

Review: Church in the Making

“How did church planting become such a spiritual crapshoot?” asks Ben Arment, author of Church in the Making: What Makes or Breaks a New Church Before it Starts . According to Arment, church plants