Religion

Announcing Church As Art Consulting

Imagine Worship that Changes People Into People Who Change the World For seven years Church as Art has worked with mainline and emergent congregations to get pastors, lay leaders, and artists onto the same page as they design worship and other church programming.  Designed at first by Rev. Troy Bronsink to bring the emergent-missional conversation [...]


Village emerging

This weekend I had the incredible privilege of joining 23 old and brand new friends to discern “What Emergent Village has been, who we were becoming, and how we are to cultivate this new form.” For back ground about the event you can visit the blog announcement at Emergent Village, and a list of participants [...]


You can’t stay inside our church…

The Abbey has been reading from Luke as a group for several months now. We have just now gotten to chapter 6, the readers-digest version of the Sermon on the Mount. And we were challenged by the vision of a community in our neighborhood who might forgive every enemy, not charge interest on loans, and [...]