Tag: Movements

  • Why our response to overwhelming doom isn’t working now

    Why our response to overwhelming doom isn’t working now

    The challenge of the moment is capitalizing on our overwhelm and our isolation. The solution is to spend more time together.

  • How rejecting conspiracy theories can actually obscure the truth

    How rejecting conspiracy theories can actually obscure the truth

    Most of us understand that conspiracy theories are fake. But in rejecting them, we miss the very means of disrupting them.

  • How Failures Win: In Movements and In Life

    How Failures Win: In Movements and In Life

    Failing is good. Every day I remind myself. We call ourselves perfectionists because we’re in pain. We use perfectionism as a kind of diagnosis which makes us feel better about playing it safe or feeling hurt. The kind of imperfection that can become a badge of honor – the strength we pass off as a weakness…

  • Don’t fear deconstruction

    As part of an ongoing project, I’m collecting some instructive ideas and understandings on this site into a new category called “Emergence“.  You can click on it in the headings above or click through the link.  I plan on describing what emergence is and what the emerging church means for liturgical and social justice Christians…