
I’m a pastor, author, Christian thinker, and freelance writer from Grand Rapids. I write within the tension of spirituality and theology, politics and culture, belief and practice, existing and emerging forms of Church, the Kingdom of God and America, modern and postmodern thought, and the gritty drama that is our pilgrim story.
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Who I am as a pastor, thinker, and author is intimately wrapped up with who the 21st century Church is and is becoming in our increasingly postmodern, post-Christian world. There’s a story in the Hebrew Scriptures about a very important lost book, the foundation to Israel’s life with God, and it was missing for two generations.
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Open handed. Giving and receiving. That is the posture of this space. This space exists to give and receive. It was my intent then and is my continued intent now. In May 2005 I launched this space with the desire to explore, open handedly, the newness I was experiencing in every area of my life, but especially my spiritual self.
Learn MoreJeremy loves the Church...and he tells us that grace grinding is not the way of Jesus and it is not the gospel Jesus preached. —Scot McKnight • Professor and Author
A post from my Monday morning column at Zondervan’s ministry blog, Engaging Church. It touches again on this theme of “connecting” that I’ve been wrestling with in my current ministry context, particularly how to get new people connected into...
Continue ReadingA post from my Monday morning column at Zondervan’s ministry blog, Engaging Church. Here I share some of my own ministry story, which bears witness to the power of life-on-life ministry. I have personally experienced what Randy Pope talks about in his powerful...
Continue ReadingA post from my Monday morning column at Zondervan’s ministry blog, Engaging Church. In it I share an important burden I have for my ministry: our process and context for connecting people in our church together. But first: How does your church connect? What...
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