This week, Roy and I have the honour of launching our new book, Forming Communities of Hope in the Great Unraveling  (Wipf and Stock,...

We need to create spaces and places where people encounter both the presence of God and the presence of others—spaces animated by God’s Spirit.

We bring with us into this new neighbourhood our dwelling with God. The monastic rhythm that has shaped my life for many years continues to be practised in the daily habit of Morning Office, Midday ‘pause for prayer’ and Evening Compline. Dwelling in scripture and practising a daily Examen keeps me rooted and alert to the work of the Spirit, embracing the sacrament of the present moment, awareness of God in the midst of ordinary, everyday life. 

It’s little wonder people are looking for places to cry out and lament. What we are experiencing across society and as God’s people are deep, pervasive and justifiable anxieties about how these cascading challenges are undermining our sense of the world.

We are waking up to the reality that we’re living in the wrong story. 

Among God’s people, in the Euro-tribal churches, there's discontent, a desire to embrace another way, without the need to have power...

We all want to get some bearings, some way of making sense of this moment, finding a pattern so we can, figure out how to navigate...

Indeed, as many of us continue to learn, our time is all about God’s agency, not our efforts to try harder, devise strategies, vision state

Perhaps the humble rapeseed plant, Brassica napus, to give it its official name, holds a modern-day parable for us.

In the Commons we are seeking to encourage those covenanted, companionable friendships.

Our sense in the Commons is that God is reweaving all things in Christ.

We know that churches have stopped working. Now the question is, what do we do? We are still convinced that we know where we are going...

When church stops working, how do we form communities of hope?

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