VineyardUSA launches Justice Response

our Vineyard Anti-Slavery Team has been working for the last year on a resource website to empower and equip people to join the fight against modern-day slavery. well, we are ready to go, and VineyardUSA has launched Justice Response. we are hoping this site has easy on ramps for people , as well as being [...]

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update: theology and the vineyard

as i previously mentioned, the Vineyard has created space for engaging in theological reflection and interaction.  currently, there are two burgeoning communities: the Society of Vineyard Scholars: i’m really excitied about the society of vineyard scholars; my paper submission – Signs and Wonders: Wisdom and the Kingdom of God – was selected to be presented at the [...]

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the recovery of lament

“It is in the recovery of lament that I believe the Church has its greatest capacity to speak forcefully again into the culture around us. It is in our ability to weep, to moan, to wail in worship that we recover the peripheries of human existence, and find that God is there as well. No [...]

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good discussions re: the Vineyard

just FYI… there are two threads on Jason Coker’s blog – pastoralia – that are going on which are really good discussions…check them out: Did Tony Jones Kill the Vineyard? Vineyard Churches at the Crossroads   peace

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godless yet closer to God?

I have been reading a book I received as a Christmas present for a few weeks: Religionless Christianity: Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Troubled Times by Jeffrey Pugh. …it is really great so far, but I have been pondering a quote from bonhoeffer in his ‘prison letters’, so I wrote a blog post about it, and it is my guest post at [...]

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updates on blogging

as i mentioned before, i am stepping in to help manage and contribute to several other blogs: the sustainable faith blog (content managing and contributing) the central maryland vineyard blog (managing and contributing) the deep church blog (not managing, merely as an irregular contributor) the maryland human trafficking task force blog the vineyard bible study [...]

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