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Learning To Talk Again: A Review of “How The Body Of Christ Talks.”
Like many, I am becoming weary of the tone of conversation in America today. It seems as if conversation is a lost art and we prefer to yell (or tweet in all caps) at each other more than talk with each other these days. It’s easy to give up hope that conversation is even possible…
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Different Approaches to Changing a City
About a year ago, I attended a webinar with David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw of Northern Seminary on the different approaches to changing a culture used by different segments of the church. David Fitch essentially defined the two approaches as Enlightenment Evangelical and Post-Enlightenment Anabaptist (or perhaps Neo-Anabaptist). As we enter a local government election…
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Where Are We: Babylon or Postexilic Jerusalem?
I have been pondering this question for a while. Recent posts and articles about the state of the Evangelical church two years into the Trump administration, the aging church, and issues within the megachurch world have only made the question speak louder in my mind. It’s long been the thinking of those of us in…
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Thankful For Those Who Are Eating Elsewhere Today
The preparations for Thanksgiving dinner have begun in the Longard house. The turkey is in the roaster (an 11 lb turkey seems like a piece of cake after cooking 2 20lb turkeys on Sunday for our friends at Penn Place). Various family members are working on starting their parts of the meal (Our middle daughter…
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Follow-up Story On Fox 59
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Have We Forgotten That It’s Not About Us?: Barriers to Kingdom Collaboration Part II
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. Now he who plants and…
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Circle City Village Status Update
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What Can A Tiny House Do?
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Tiny Houses and the New Sidewalk Sitting Proposal
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Among You As One Who Serves: Guest Post (sort of) by Troy Cady
Last month, my friend, Troy Cady, came from Chicago to share with our Diakonos Community Simple Church Gathering. Before he left on his trip to Indy, he posted some thoughts on his upcoming trip in light of some of the discussion going on that week about leadership and the Global Leadership Summit at Willow Creek…
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Church At Hardee’s
Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with joyful and sincere hearts. Acts 2:46 In the early church, spiritual activity was not reserved to only when the followers of Jesus were in the official place of worship (the Temple). As…
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Why “Random Acts of Kindness” Aren’t Always Kind
This is a picture my friend, Angela Hopson, took will doing outreach among friends experiencing homelessness this week. It shows an area at one encampment where boxes of perishable and non-perishable food is just dumped for people in the camp to use. For those of us who work regularly with friends experiencing homelessness, we need…
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