“Let’s all go around and say our name, and our favorite thing about our neighborhood.” Ice-breakers are perpetually awkward. Not the high school-first-homecoming-don’t-know-where-to-put-my-hands-slow-dance sort of awkward… but they are undoubtedly uncomfortable. Nevertheless, the “say something about your neighborhood” tactic is one I routinely employ at the on-going conversations on missional engagement that I am invited […]
Month: June 2016
Crocodile Church
My house was a zoo growing up. No really… like, a literal zoo. My dad, for reasons I still don’t know, developed a passion for collecting animals—a passion for animals that I can thankfully say rubbed off on me. However, my dad’s propensity toward animals favored the cold-blooded, rare, potentially lethal (and, consequently, those in […]
What the Church Can Learn from the Irish “Troubles.”
The air was stagnant, and the thick humidity caused sweat beaded across my forehead—even at midnight—as we walked the shores of Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago. Gino and I had traveled there to follow up with folks that Jamie and I had met on the As Family We Go tour with Rend Collective. I was […]
