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My name is Laura and these are the wonderings of a theologically trained ponderer (me), writing out-loud, while working to help form her small corner of the church.Read more about Laura and the blog:
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Category Archives: in the world
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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Tagged Alan Roxburgh, missional, network of neighborhoods, ordinary life, spiritual gifts
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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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Tagged body of christ, network of neighborhoods, ordinary life
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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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Insight: Education
What we need more than anything else is not textbooks, but text-people. It is the personality of the teacher which is the text that the pupils read, the text they will never forget. – Abraham Joshua Heschel, quoted in Michael … Continue reading
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
