Author Archives: Laura

About Laura

My name is Laura and I am on a journey, pondering the implications of God's glorious design of humanity and integrating sundry aspects of this design into a description of what it means to be the new humanity.

Ecclesiology Wrap: August 22 to August 28

New Book About Church as Family: Alan Knox looks forward to Joe Hellerman’s book, When the Church was Family.  I had the privilege of taking a class from Joe while he was finishing this book and had the opportunity to … Continue reading

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Insight: Philosophy of Education via Peterson’s With All Your Mind

…truth itself may be more fairly treated when diverse opinions are allowed to flourish. With All Your Mind: A Christian Philosophy of Education Michael L. Peterson University of Notre Dame Press (2001), Edition: 1, p. 161

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Reflection on “Moving Back into the Neighborhood”

This reflection uses “Moving Back into the Neighborhood” by Alan Roxburgh as a catalyst for pondering embodiment in the neighborhood.  In this short article, Roxburgh reflects on the August, 2009, “Moving Back into the Neighborhood” conference in San Diego, CA, … Continue reading

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The Value of Ordinary Life: Worship as Perspective and Treasure

This post continues the discussion of topics informing a network of neighborhoods. In the initial post, Becoming a Network of Neighborhoods, I pondered some informing concepts and arrived at provisional definitions of each. Neighborhood: a love-formed relational space, usually composed … Continue reading

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Disagreeing to the Glory of God

Every church has at least few issues: some more than others.  But what do you do when you’ve been called to a church where the very structure is non-biblical and possibly unbiblical? [1]  Since you’ve been called by God, leaving … Continue reading

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