Monthly Archives: June 2015
Prompts for Reflection- Living Slowly
Use these questions to guide your response as you dwell in this story, and reflect on your own story. We’d love to hear about your thoughts and experience and if possible to share your discoveries with others. We would like...
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Prompts for Reflection: the Mississippi Story
Use these questions to guide your thoughts as you dwell in these stories, and reflect on your own story. We’d love to hear about your thoughts and experience and if possible to share your discoveries with others. We would like to publish some responses in full in the journal, widening and deepening our learning community.
Cultivating Desire in Mississippi
This story focuses on the development of one particular experiment aimed at learning a new way of relating to a small group of high school football players—as neighbors to be enjoyed in their own presence. The story is remarkable in that the experiment yielded almost no ground, and no perceptible change in language or practice occurred, despite significant work in a progressive and open congregation with an identifiable desire to change. The story is hopeful because...
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Prompts for reflection: the Mississippi Story
Reflection: 'The Presence of Neighbors' by Sam Ewell
Reflection: 'Questioning as Quest' by Angela Gorrell
Reflection: 'Desiring the Neighborhood or Dwelling There' by Carolyn Kelly and Mark Johnston
Reflection: 'Whose Wholeness and Whose Healing?' by Joshua R. Smith
Eight Village Churches and One Life
My life and ministry embody a paradox. I am committed to working with local churches and their communities, yet I commute to do this. I am committed to building relationships between local churches and their contexts, yet I am seldom at home in my own neighbourhood. In effect, I am part of modern Western culture...
God Loves a Good Party
We were becoming convinced that a missional God who attends to us in person and in place was calling and empowering us to do the same. What might it look like for us to live among our neighbours as neighbours, community stakeholders alongside them. Could we be neighbours...
Finding Roots in Stroud Green… Or Across London
2014 sees our hearts divided between our long-loved scattered church and the local Stroud Green neighbourhood, where we are growing roots. I begin this reflection with both trepidation (as I know some would criticise my scattered church) and hope (for a clearer vision).
Barefoot in Munich
Can God be found on the streets of Munich? Munich, of all places, a city of wealth, pride and power with its designer stores and business headquarters? It was Father Christian Herwartz SJ who encouraged us, a group of men from all over Germany, to believe just that. So we met in St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, slept on the balcony of the sanctuary, met for breakfast and prayer in the mornings and then set off individually into the bustle and noise of the streets.