I'm excited to announce this project that has been in the works for more than a year!  Missio Madison is an incubator and coh...

National headlines regularly herald the decline of Christianity in the United States, citing historically low levels of confidence in orga...

Alan Roxburgh has been writing books about how the church can respond to the massive cultural change afoot for two decades. His latest offe...

Seattle is home to a number of new churches that are embodying their belief that the gospel is good news to neighborhoods. Seeking to incarn...

What practices can sustain missional practice and spiritual vitality among church planters? Taking cues from Ignatius of Loyola, who gai...

If you're a church planter or doing ministry in Seattle or Portland, you should check out " Ecclesial Pioneers in the Pacific Nor...

In this post, I offer my understanding of evangelism as a Christian practice. As I develop this understanding and situate evangelism withi...

I’ve been a Christian as long as I can remember, but one of the important moments in my faith life was when I was in ninth grade… I had al...

I'm officially ABD (all but dissertation) which means I'm being asked regularly what my dissertation is on.  Here's a shortened...

The so-called "Rise of the Nones" as been all over the news lately, thanks to new research released by the Pew Forum on Religio...

This post offers a biographical sketch of Second Great Awakening revivalist Charles Finney and summary of his most important book. Charl...

Two frequently recommended texts in the burgeoning church planting literature are Aubrey Malphurs’ Planting Growing Churches for the 21st ...

This is part two of my engagement with Mission-Shaped Church: Church Planting and Fresh Expressions in a Changing Contex t.  This post offe...

Mission-Shaped Church: Church Planting and Fresh Expressions in a Changing Context is a rare example of a denominational report written by...

Neil Cole believes “that church should happen wherever life happens” (24).  As founder of the Awakening Chapels network and Church Multip...

It's a good discussion. Ed Stetzer & David Fitch - a missional conversation from Missional Tribe on Vimeo . There are two mor...

As an updated and renamed version of Stetzer’s 2003 text, Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age , Planting Missional Churches seeks t...

JR Rozko, a friend, blogger and co-creator of this video penned these provocative words about the future of theological education: ...

Mission is the "what" but incarnation is the "how." Too much talk about the centrality of mission to ecclesiology and ...

This post explores the way the church and mission are related and developed in three documents written between 1951 and 1967: “The Church in...