One of the many reasons my wife and I want to plant a church is because it is the very place to foster such virtues and practices! The church gathers to announce that even in the midst of feeling disoriented, demotivated, discouraged, and disembodied, God has not abandoned us.

In a season that is marked by so much death and distance, we confess our

There is no way to extract ourselves from the age of authenticity and the construal of Secular 3. But the attention to experience in the age of authenticity does nevertheless open up a possibility. By giving attention to people’s experience of cross-pressure, to the echoes of transcendence they experience (but doubt), to the very ways they get cros

Often the deadness we face in congregational life is due to a loss of the centrality of transformation. (To lose transformation is to lose a concrete vision for the efficacy of divine action.)

Yet, unable to circumvent the blockage and walk through this door, we are more attuned than ever, in the age of authenticity, to our feelings and individual expressions. Therefore, we can’t help feeling the cross-pressure, sensing an echo of lost transcendence we try to ignore. We have to ignore it because it has been negated. But in the oddest way