Feb 17, 2025 | Church & Culture
Season 11 of the Faith in a Fresh Vibe podcast is nearing completion! Friends, this season has taken almost a year to put together and it’s finally in post-production. This is my most ambitious project to date…. “Farewell Evangelicalism” is a...
Jan 8, 2025 | Church & Culture
*Originally posted in December 2015. A related post from 2018 on the subject of preaching as well.* For over 500 years the Sunday service has been dominated by preaching, the foundation for the vast majority of Western churches. Many churchgoers based both their faith...
Dec 2, 2024 | Church & Culture
Welcome to Advent 2024…with various scenes of liberation. This is the first entry in this year’s Advent series available exclusively through the newsletter. If you are not signed up visit the homepage or any signup form on the website. If you’re new...
Nov 11, 2024 | Church & Culture
This past week has been tumultuous esepcially for American folks. Heavy sighs all around. I remember 7 years ago I had a huge uptick of subscribers when I gave away a free anti-racism e-book (which you can still get for signing up to my newsletter). Oddly, the same...Jul 17, 2024 | Church & Culture
If there was an image to describe me 15 years ago, just replace Jedi with evangelicalism…. If you’ve been here long enough then you know I used to write a lot on the whole missional church movement / church planting ‘industry’. It was my...
Sep 3, 2023 | Church & Culture
In my book When We Belong, I told the story of how my second church plant Cypher Church started. It was on the heels of closing my first church plant called (at the time) Converge. I saw the proverbial writing on the wall when only 5 people showed up to a Sunday...Jun 11, 2023 | Church & Culture
*The following paragraph contains minor spoilers for the series finale of Ted Lasso. The season finale (series?) of Ted Lasso included the redemption arc of Nate, and the semi-redemption of Roy. Both are re-introduced to Ted Lasso’s “Diamond...
Mar 27, 2023 | Church & Culture
Reposted from February 20th, 2018. It’s been noted on social media: When children in Sandy Hook were massacred by semi-automatic fire, America had a choice to do something. And they did. They did nothing. The implications are grave. To do nothing after school...
Feb 13, 2023 | Church & Culture
When you hear folks that hate Christianity, is that because they hate the teachings of Jesus? Or because they hate the way the church (the people that is) are self-serving antagonists? A curious feature in religious conservatism is the need for control. Controlling...
Nov 3, 2022 | Church & Culture
Stats Canada data on religious affiliation is out with the 2021 census data and the numbers are confirming some trends regarding Christian affiliations. Here are the highlights as I see them, comparing some key denominations. This builds off of my my book Thrive....
