Category Archives: Thoughts

Still Defining Missional

Obligitory link to the Missional Syncroblog from a few years ago.
The term missional suffers from continued confusion. Lately I think to too many Missional means "I’m not Emergent but I am still progressive!" And it is still easily captured by those who see nothing of value in institutional christianity. "Missional means getting away from crusty [...]

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Through the River

Tomorrow morning I need to get up early and head to Rawdon Street to finish preparing to lead the reflecting and worshiping of our church community.
Tonight I’m outside smoking a cigar and drinking cider and beer. And I’m reflecting on the decade that has lead me here.
And at the beginning of 2000 I was taking [...]

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Faith

Faith moves.
It seeks out new places where it can become faithful.
Faith means going out the door,
not waiting inside for something to happen.
Faith breathes.
Inhaling deeply of the air that contains it.
It welcomes the truth that floats on the wind,
that lives in the song of a child in the playground.
Faith is fearless.
It searches for the dark places [...]

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Sophia!

What a blur these last few days have been!
Sophia Faith came to live with us on Thursday afternoon after only about 7 hours of labour. Amy’s water broke at 5am and we headed to the hospital where her contractions began and quickly escalated. By noon the nurse was calling for her doctor to come for [...]

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Imagination–Deconstruction–Absurdity–Dreaming

In our dreaming we are re-living, assessing, sorting, discarding, and filing information and experience for ease of future use. We get rid of what we don’t need and sort and keep what we do need – to the best of our subconscious abilities. The mind puts things together in ways that don’t make sense in [...]

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