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network of neighborhoods Archive
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Fun and Presents or Joy and Presence
Posted on 2009/12/18 | No CommentsDecember is a season of gathering, as our various neighborhoods celebrate the season (or the incarnation!). One day the company, another the office, this day friends, and that day family:... -
The Neighborhoods Just Intersected
Posted on 2009/12/08 | No CommentsEvery Christian likely belongs to several ecclesial neighborhoods. I belong to at least two: Sanctify and the Biola Registrars Office. This weekend, they overlapped in a fabulous way. At Sunday... -
Community Reveals Itself in the Ordinary
Posted on 2009/11/13 | No CommentsMost weeks after Bible study, conversation continues after the “formal time” has ended. The dialogue can include anything from cultural prejudice to computer games to the problem of evil to... -
Our Neighborhood has been Recognized!
Posted on 2009/11/08 | No CommentsLast night, two of us from the monthly Il Fornaio crew went there without the crew. The hostess and some of the wait staff said, “Only two?” (We informed them... -
Neighborhood Happens
Posted on 2009/11/05 | 1 CommentWednesday morning, the bus to campus had a detour. In itself, this is rare, but not notable. In fact, the detour was rather routine, except for one thing: this was... -
Reflection on “Moving Back into the Neighborhood”
Posted on 2009/08/26 | 2 CommentsThis reflection uses “Moving Back into the Neighborhood” by Alan Roxburgh as a catalyst for pondering embodiment in the neighborhood. In this short article, Roxburgh reflects on the August, 2009,... -
The Value of Ordinary Life: Worship as Perspective and Treasure
Posted on 2009/08/25 | No CommentsThis post continues the discussion of topics informing a network of neighborhoods. In the initial post, Becoming a Network of Neighborhoods, I pondered some informing concepts and arrived at provisional... -
Insight: Spiritual Formation via Issler’s Wasting Time With God
Posted on 2009/08/21 | No CommentsNeighborly love is a love of hospitality to others and is a broad, catchall category of love, which includes (a) those for whom there may be a limited expectation of... -
Neighborhood: Built by Love and Shared in Worship
Posted on 2009/08/19 | No CommentsIn the previous post in this series, I thought through three concepts underlying a network of neighborhoods and arrived at provisional definitions of each concept: Neighborhood: a love-formed relational space,... -
Becoming a Network of Neighborhoods
Posted on 2009/08/17 | 1 CommentLast Thursday, I shared a collective dream in Becoming a Tribe of Ecclesiological Gastronauts. The story there brought up several ideas worth pondering: table fellowship intention versus ulterior motives remembering...
