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“Knitting While Detroit Burns?”: The Reformed “Both/And” versus the Anabaptist “First/ Then” 27 Aug 2013 | 05:41 pm
You’ve got to love the phrase “Knitting while Detroit burns?” Jamie Smith is one of the best at turning a phrase and this one beautifully visualizes what a lot of people think about Anabaptists and th...
OFF ON HOLIDAY!! 13 Aug 2013 | 07:12 am
Folks I’m off on holiday. On our way to Canada. I’ll be off blogging, twitter and facebook. I’ll be back at it August 22nd!! See everybody then. In mean time, hopefully no one will stoop to snarky co...
The UnKingdom of God: a book by Mark Van Steenwyk: Therapy for Living the Modern Life Under His Rule 8 Aug 2013 | 05:10 pm
In honor of the release of Mark Van Steenwyk’s new book the UnKingdom of God this week with Inter Varsity Press, I post below my foreword to the book. Mark’s book is a a presentation of the challenge ...
Create a New ‘Order’ of Clergy: A Recommendation to Denominations 6 Aug 2013 | 11:08 pm
So I am sure I’m not the first to come up with this notion (look here for instance), but it seems to me denominations in the West need to create a new category for commissioning leadership. We need an...
The Missional Movement is Mostly White and What We Should Do About it. Warning: Blog Post by A White Male 31 Jul 2013 | 06:25 pm
The Missional Movement is Mostly White For most of its 15+ years, the missional church movement has been largely white. Its participants, thinkers and leaders are mostly white. Although there are man...
How To Avoid Becoming a Cult (or for that matter A Large Consumer Mega Church): Oikos versus Ekklesia 23 Jul 2013 | 11:51 pm
Oikos and Ekklesia: Every Church Needs Both In Gregory Dix’s monumental book The Shape of the Liturgy he describes how the early gathering of the Christians took on a double character. There were pri...
The State of the Missional Conversation is Not Good: Has the Neo-Reformed Quit Talking? 16 Jul 2013 | 09:06 pm
It’s getting harder and harder to have good theological conversations around Mission and missional church. And yet, the manifestation of our many problems in the movement itself begs for more discern...
The Proliferation of Missional Roundtables: See You in the Twin Cities Next Weekend 11 Jul 2013 | 05:14 pm
I have been participating in a growing phenomenon: the proliferation of small regional gatherings of missional leaders talking shop. These are gatherings of like minded leaders to discuss issues we’re...
Working on Site Redesign 10 Jul 2013 | 02:05 am
Thanks for your patience today as we started working on my site. I know a few people have had issues with the RSS feeds recently. The link for the rss feed is: www.reclaimingthemission.com/wp-feed.ph...
Signs the Spirit Has Left the Building by Ty Grigg 9 Jul 2013 | 05:26 pm
It has been the goal of the RTM blog to add a second post to my own (Dave Fitch) every week. As always these will be short reflections from planting, leading, pastoring missional communities, as well ...
