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.

Becoming a Network of Neighborhoods

Last Thursday, I shared a collective dream in Becoming a Tribe of Ecclesiological Gastronauts.  The story there brought up several ideas worth pondering: table fellowship intention versus ulterior motives remembering we are Church a network of neighborhoods The idea of … Continue reading

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Ecclesiology Wrap August 8 – August 13

When The Thing Becomes The Thing: Jonathan Brink asks, “What happens when the very act of love becomes the religious practice that once again becomes the thing we think will earn God’s love?” The Foolishness of the Cross and Church-Planting … Continue reading

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Insight: Christology

This Christological concept [that Jesus is the center of all truth] signifies that the very heart of reality is personal, rational, and knowable and that all other knowledge takes on proper perspective through relationship to Christ. Michael L. Peterson, With … Continue reading

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Becoming a Tribe of Ecclesiological Gastronauts

Among my many diversions, two claim pride of place: food and ecclesiology. Over my lifetime, these two have synergized as I and fellow gastronautic Christ followers gathered at sundry local restaurants, sharing life and food. In my twenties, my fellow … Continue reading

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Accidental Ecclesiology: Where

Having pondered my way through essential ecclesiology–the whatness, whoness, and whyness of Church–I move on to accidental ecclesiology.  Accidents, as a reminder, are not those things that happen when one is paying more attention to texting than to driving.  Accidents … Continue reading

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