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Setting Community-Centric Intentions for the New Year

The Ultimate Christmas Gift: Sharing Incarnational Community Amid an Epidemic of Loneliness

The Ultimate Christmas Gift: Sharing Incarnational Community Amid an Epidemic of Loneliness

Maintenance is NOT the Mission: Matters of Measurement and Measuring Matter

Why Sociology?

Renegotiating the Social Contract

Balcony + Dance: Ignatian Discernment, C Wright Mills, & The Sociological Imagination

Transfiguring Church Culture: Reorganizing the Church for Holistic Mission

Practical Expressions: Living Out Our Calling in the Everyday

Transfigured by the Spirit: Empowering the Whole Church for Mission

“Shifting the Center of Gravity” – Reconstructing the Church

Living Faithfully: Reimagining Faith and Work for a Holistic Church

Beyond Clergy and Laity: Rediscovering the Biblical Roots of Transvocational Ministry

Bridging Roles: Navigating the New Landscape of Work and Transvocational Ministry

The Rise of Transvocational Ministry

Places Practitioners Play—The “Where” of Fresh Expressions

Who Can Cultivate Fresh Expressions?

“Loving First”—The "How" of Fresh Expressions

Why Fresh Expressions of Church?

What Are Fresh Expressions of Church?

Fresh Expressions: A Vine of Many Branches

Adapting Leadership

Our Adaptive God, Dogma, and Faithful Adaptation

Getting AGIL, Talcott Parsons, and the Praxis of the Apostles

The Balcony and the Dance: Contemplation and Action

Getting AGIL—The Adaptations of the Apostles

Adaptive Ecclesiology, Jürgen Habermas, and Jeremiah the "Weeping Prophet"

Cultivating Gardens of Well-being in the Desert of Exile

Episode 2 - The Anatomy of Jesus's Compassion

Adaptive Ecclesiology

Compassion Matters

"Compassion Matterized"

Part Seven: Susanna Wesley, Ecclesial Gangster

Part Six: “Exceed Thou Authority”

Part Five: Wise Leadership, Positive Deviants, and Strange Attractors

Part Four: NASA, SpaceX, and the Blended Ecology of Church

Part Three: Wise are the Flexible

Part Two: Wise and Not-So-Wise Organizations

Part One: The Unwise and Unwell State of Denominations

The Compassion Gap

What is Love?

Why Compassion?

Why Sociology?

Habitations of Healing

Good Friday & Bad Religion

Take it on the Trail

Assessing Our Vocation

Passio Dei