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A Not-So-Simple Life.

// January 25th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Article, Link

The Washington Post Magazine today features a wonderful article about A Simple House, A Not-So-Simple Life.  It’s a really great article that helps explain a lot of the things we’ve been working through living in community. It also features a couple of quotes from my housemate Dawnielle Miller and mentions our community, Casa Chirilagua.  Let me [...]

Activist D.C. Church Embraces Transition in Name of Its Mission

// January 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Article, Link

The Washington Post’s Michelle Boorstein recently wrote an article about Church of the Savior, Activist D.C. Church Embraces Transition in Name of Its Mission. To quote one of my friends in the city, “No other group of people has done more to bring social justice to the city.” They were emerging decades before anyone had any [...]

Another Problem with Preaching

// January 7th, 2009 // 6 Comments » // Commentary

Ok, so in my last post I talked about the problem with preaching being that it often elevates the gifts of one over the gifts of others and it’s important that we have everyone’s gifts for the Word to be more fully expressed. (If you’ve not read it already, you should read it first as [...]

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