Embracing Exile: A Review of Jesus Has Left the Building
Paul Vieira has penned a new book suggesting that God is not only suffering the exodus of believers from organized Church, but actually inspiring the move.

Imagination and God's Future
On this day in God’s story, we are like those awakening from a long sleep. We have taken the red pill, and we are discovering how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Following Jesus in Real Time
So often we go about living our lives- knowing full well what Jesus has spoken- yet without any real expectation that we could ever live according to his words.

Intimacy with God: Language and Meaning
Clichés help make our prayers sound orthodox and acceptable to anyone else around, but they do not add to the meaning in private personal prayer.

Toward a Kingdom Theology: Ending Earth Violence
If, in our actions, we can pass on to our children a new way of living in the world- we shall prove better stewards of God's manifold grace.

Coffee and Common Ground: Conversations About God
An enthralling and instructive living example of how one might convey truth to people who are naturally suspicious of evidence presented as “demands.”

Community: Who Needs It?
The hope of the world is not that the church can be strong, but that she can be weak enough to welcome the One who came among us in weakness and vulnerability.

The Destination of Journey in Finding Community
A recent move led my family and me to reflect about what we really were seeking in a church. This journey in finding community was a revealing one.

Anne Lamott Kills a Man - And Writes About It
Writing in The Los Angeles Times, Lamott begins with these words: "The man I killed did not want to die, but he no longer felt he had much of a choice."

Chronicling a Life in God and the Catholic Church
Joseph Girzone, a retired Catholic priest and author of the Joshua series, releases “My Struggle with Faith”; a compelling testament to a journey in following Jesus.

Learning to See: A Manifesto for Discipleship
The life long journey of being a disciple involves gaining greater clarity on four key relationships. All four relate to the process of learning to see.

A Look at Natural Church Development
We need to view the church through a biotic lens. The church is a living organism, and every living thing is organized on life principles.

The Great Giveaway: A Review
In The Great Giveaway, David Fitch examines the church's ideas of success, evangelism, leadership, worship, preaching, justice, spiritual formation and moral education.

Out the Window with Open Door Theology
Most often, the accomplishment of God's will requires uncertainty, sacrifice, and horrible moments of indecision, blood, sweat, and tears.

Assessing Barna's Revolution: Futurism or Wishful Thinking?
In his latest book, Revolution, George Barna outlines the future of faith in America. Does his futurist perspective hold up to scrutiny?

An Ode to the Local Church: 10 Things To Love About Congregational Gathering
Some are prediciting the demise of the local church model- others are calling for it. And then there's a response that flys in the opposite direction.

The Recovery of Self and the Gospel of Sin Management
In fighting to resist idolatry in the Church we become so pre-occupied with sin that we find ourselves naval gazing and self-centered once again.

A Conversation with Brian McLaren: Thoughts on Eschatology, Diversity, Criticism
Precipice Magazine recently had the opportunity to speak with Brian McLaren about topics addressed in his new book, the Secret Message of Jesus.

The Mega-Church: A Final Flurry for the Modern Church?
If we truly exist in a society that is phasing towards postmodernism then how do we account for the apparent success of the mega-church movement?

Anchor for my Soul: Finding a Foundation During Transition
In order to discern change and to rethink our direction in response to change, we have to be secure in something that does not change.

Between Left and Right: Charting the New Middle Ground
It seems that we're beginning to see signs that the tradtional Christian "Left" and "Right" are beginning to listen to, and even learn from each other.

A Review of Marcia Ford's God Between the Covers
Speaking of the power of the written word, Ford's book is all about
her journey of finding faith through reading.

Drinking Coffee with John Lennon: Conversations about Highest Morality
Considering the state of the present "culture war"going on between the Right and Left in America, I think the Greeks have something to teach us about dialog and debate. What if we have the end goal after all?

Take Nothing for the Journey
In order to move to a new place we have to leave old places behind. Those "old places" can be physical or spiritual geographies. Change grips us at all dimensions of our being.

What to do with Anne Lamott?
There exists a category of "Christian writer" for whom all of us can wholeheartedly agree; one who is widely accepted and praised. And then there is Anne Lamott.

The Lion, the Creed, and the Steam Train
Doctrine is mostly understood as a dry scientific listing of facts aiming to exhaust the topic of our Creator and LORD. But how can we think God, eternal and therefore endless in description, is thoroughly and completely describable?

Will Being a Christian Make Me a Good Person?
A dualistic sense of reality, where this world is cut off from the next, is rooted in a Greek worldview- not a Judeo-Christian one. This error has costs in the here and now.

Of Science, Superstition and Theology
To some, superstition and theology are in a category directly opposed to the rationality of science. I would suggest they have more in common than we are comfortable admitting.

Pursuing a Hermeneutic of Love
For those of us who see God as an infinitely beautiful, powerful, glorious, merciful lover of our souls, I think it is high time we pursued, above all else, a hermeneutic of love.

Recovering from Church Abuse
Millions of people have been abused, hurt, disillusioned, and disappointed by organized religion. Some of these are even suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Christian Angst vs. Missional Hope
There sometimes exists a very fine line between a conversation born out of missional hope rather than the seductive root of addictive Christian angst.

Making Disciples: Revisiting the Commission
Jesus intended for His Kingdom to be established in every facet and aspect of our lives, of our cultures, of our consciousness. No secular vs. spiritual. ALL is spiritual.

Coloring Outside the Box
One of our problems is that we have slowly become Gnostics, affirming the reality of a spirituality that has no ties to matter. The incarnation pulls in a different direction.

The Wizard of Os: My Journey Home
Have you ever wanted someone to explain your life purpose? Have you craved an answer for the internal longings that remain unfulfilled? If so, Dorothy has lessons to teach.

Postmodern Pentacostal Experiences
Seekers are more interested in a spiritual experience that feels real, than in coming to Church- no matter relevant the religious paraphernalia and contemporary spiritual syntax may be.

Chasing Relevant
We often become predisposed with keeping our finger on the "pulse" and learning the newest formula. Yet, if we become too focused on the how, the why can dangerously become an afterthought.

Covenant, Community and the Weakness of God
Maybe we have to unlearn our certainties and systems and really discover faith.. faith not in a system of beliefs, but personal faith in Christ.. the kind that "can look on tempests and is not shaken," that can "go but not know" like Abraham.

Silence the Media
Silence and solitude has long been a vital contemplative aspect of the Faith. So how does that apply in the media-frenzy that surrounds our contemporary culture?

A More Virulent Strain of Postmodernism
Postmodernism is not what it used to be; it is an evolving paradigm. It changes in order to best suit its environment. In that sense it is the chameleon philosophy.

The Intangibles of Community and Kingdom
The intangibles of the Kingdom grip my heart. In the dance of word and Spirit, it's the intangibles that defy description and empower the journey.

Three Perspectives on a Mystery
Outside the modern/postmodern debate exists a third "pre-modern" perspective- offered by the rich, dynamic and ancient Eastern Orthodox tradition.

21st Century Discipleship
Talking at people just isn't a very fruitful method of discipleship in the 21st century; it has to be woven into the fabric of everyday relationship.

Church Planting in a Chaordic Age
While more traditional organizations may not yet see it, "temporary Kingdom experiments" are a legitimate expression of church planting in a postmodern society.

Dear Church, Welcome to the Revolution
At the end of the day, if we haven’t touched the heart of God, if we haven’t basked in His Glory, then the gathering is irrelevant. We don’t need Sunday school; we need Jesus.

Emergent to What?
Where do we go from here? If this thing is called the Emergent Church movement, then what exactly is it emerging into? And is this a perpetual process or just for a season?

Postmodern Perspectives on Faith
Taking time to consider how modernist assumptions have colored our understanding of God, the Church and the World, can leave us newly invigorated and freshly committed to mission.

New Conversations for New Times
Many people who embrace the Emergent movement do so because they realize that many old modernist categories no longer seem relevant; and that's sparking new conversations.

Bono the Evangelist
How a middle aged Irish rock star reached out to Africa in a spirit of Christian social justice and made himself a hero and new-world evangelist on the side.

Call it Process Evangelism
Who says we have to have all the answers all the time? There's plenty of room to believe some things absolutely, while simultaneously holding other things much more lightly.