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Gannon Sims: The Green Martyrs Gannon Sims | 20 Mar 2013 The following is an excerpt from a sermon preached on the Fifth Sunday in Lent. The story of St. Patrick is a lot more compelling than our celebrations of him. In...
George Linney: From dust you were born 19 Feb 2013 The day began gloomy and in a misty rain—just as it should. Driving in the freezing rain, Mumford & Sons consoled and convicted me with the reminder that I am...
Kris Beckert: Arrows on the Interstate Kris Beckert | 23 Jan 2013 I didn’t want to go. There are times in our lives when we just really don’t want to do something we know we have to do. Some of them involve...
Chris Backert: An Advent–Pentecost Reflection Chris Backert | 19 Dec 2012 Many of my friends know that, at best, I am a “low-church” liturgist. A few years ago, most of the rigidity of the liturgical calendar was more binding than loosing...
The Colonial ‘Inn-carnation’ Gannon Sims | 18 Dec 2012 by Gregg Jennings Fredericksburg, Virginia—In October of 2011, there was a murder at The Colonial Motel. Evidence suggests it was a drug deal gone badly. The Colonial is an ironic...
Gannon Sims: C.S. Lewis and our changing culture Gannon Sims | 28 Nov 2012 Few writers are more widely read than C.S. Lewis. The Abolition of Man, his little book first given as a series of lectures in 1943, is a prophetic word to...
Kris Beckert: No day to die Kris Beckert | 24 Oct 2012 I really don’t like anything dying. From the day my first goldfish died when I was five, to the last funeral I presided over as a pastor, I have...
Cheryl McCarthy: Sowing seeds and following the wind Cheryl McCarthy | 19 Sep 2012 “Which way does Your wind blow? That’s the way we want to go.” – Andrew Ehrenzeller “The wind blows wherever it pleases.” – John 3:8 The question is, “How do...
Gannon Sims: The Church as surprise Gannon Sims | 22 Aug 2012 “To encounter crisis is to encounter the possibility of truly being the church.” So says South African Theologian David Bosh in his magisterial work: Transforming Mission. Bosh notes that the...
Coffee and Chaos Gannon Sims | 20 Aug 2012 Coffee and Chaos from Fresh Expressions US on Vimeo. Souderton, Pennsylvania—It was simple. Jenifer Eriksen Morales saw the moving van pull up to the house next door and she invited...
George Linney: On running and ridicule 1 Aug 2012 God made me for a purpose. But He also made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. –Eric Liddell, Chariots of Fire Now I am no Olympian...
The Missionary Church: A part-time minister with a full-time vision Gannon Sims | 25 Jul 2012 by Gannon Sims Powhatan, Virginia— A brief encounter with a coffee shop owner changed the way Greg Lemaster thinks about church. He’d learned the shop was struggling to make a...

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