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Mission, Vision, and Strategy

If you ask a room full of clergy for their opinion on vision and mission statements, prepare for a few eye-rolls and groans. In...

Biggest Little Church

The documentary Biggest Little Farm (2018) tells the story of the regeneration of Apricot Lane Farms in Moorpark, California. When John and Molly Chester...

Learning from Our 1919 Pentecostal Moment, Part Two

Bishop Arthur Selden Lloyd developed a plan for administrative and financial restructuring, combined with a church-wide push to inform, raise funds, and nurture spiritual growth.

Olympics and Authenticity

Like so many other households, my family spent most of our early August nights watching the Olympics. Ritual pervades every aspect of my life,...

Taking Ourselves Too Seriously

In The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (2013), Nina Munk offers a sympathetic yet critical review of the Millenium Villages...

Mission Under Pressure

"Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you’” (John 20:21). In the accounts...

Bring Back the Greeks

I have a talk on modernity and mission in which I try to diagnose the challenge of modernity and lay out a strategy for an...

The Harvest Is Plentiful But the Laborers Are Few

As I was growing up, my church did regular mission trips with groups of people from the church. I don’t mean overseas missions. We...

How St. Paul’s Example Guides Me in Mumias, Kenya

For a recent international day of peace, Anglican Development Services, Western Region, invited me to share some thoughts on fostering interfaith dialogue for global...

Joyful Mission in a Christian Household

By Kristine Blaess As our eldest child is preparing to leave home for college this fall, I have been reflecting on these precious years with...

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