Category Archives: Community

Getting Organized (summer adventure part 2)

I spent July 8-13 in Chicago for the Industrial Areas Foundation’s Community Organizer National Training.  This was phase two of my grant work this summer looking at the intersections of emergence, evangelism, and, you guessed it: community organizing.  The conference involved long hours in the fluorescent-lit conference rooms of the Doubletree Hotel, but brought together aContinueContinue reading “Getting Organized (summer adventure part 2)”

Flaming Gorge

June 26-30 I spent with good friends from high school in Flaming Gorge, Utah.  This has become a bit of a ritual journey for our group.  We spent 4-5 days jumping off of cliffs, eating amazing food (thanks largely to the women-folk my guy friends have accumulated), and discussing theology and politics around the campfire underContinueContinue reading “Flaming Gorge”

Prophet Bishops and Pilgrimage

Yesterday someone took shots at a friend and pastor.  The Rt. Rev. Martín Barahona, Anglican Bishop of El Salvador was the victim of the violence which plagues his country.  Thankfully the would-be-killer’s bullets missed the Bishop.  Sadly his driver Francisco is in the hospital. Shots fired at a Bishop resound specifically this week.  On SaturdayContinueContinue reading “Prophet Bishops and Pilgrimage”