Recently, the TransFORM network for missional community formation launched. It will be a fantastic resource for people who want to start missional communities, or who have already started them, by giving encouragement and resources to make them sustainable.
We got our copy of the first issue of GENERATE Magazine the other day.
I want to draw attention here to the fact that Mark Van Steenwyk is in Atlanta until next Tuesday.
As I said earlier, this year's Cornerstone Festival had a lot of great seminars.
To give a small introduction to this, for a decade Emergent Village has been an organization seeking to follow God in the way of Jesus.
Today is Pentecost Sunday (yesterday, now that it is after midnight). I feel a little weird writing about it, being something of an ecclesial vagabond in the last couple of years.
I talk fairly often about the early characteristics of the Pentecostal movement, especially its ardent pacifism.
If you are in Atlanta and are available this afternoon at 5pm, the Atlanta Emergent Cohort is doing an Ash Wednesday performance art ritual.
For those in the Atlanta area who are interested in such things, there is a lot of great stuff happening in the next week or so.
Recently, I've been reading Brian McLaren's Everything Must Change. I have also read The Secret Message of Jesus, which is meant to be read as a companion volume.
Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.
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