RePlacing Church 51: Killian Noe on Recovery and Belonging

Killian Noe is Founding Director of Recovery Cafe in Seattle, WA, a refuge of healing and transformation for women and men who have been traumatized by homelessness, addiction and other mental health challenges. Prior to moving to Seattle in 1999 and starting Recovery Cafe in 2003, Killian lived in Washington, D.C. where she was a part of Church of the …

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Practicing Patient Tenacity During Advent

We’re in the season of Advent: the beginning of the Christian year and a time of waiting, longing, preparation, and expectation. In the midst of a culture that wants to rush toward the warm fuzzies of a sentimentalized Christmas season, how can we cultivate the kind of attitude Advent is meant to evoke in us? How can we honor what this …

RePlacing Church 50: Dr. Robin DiAngelo on White Fragility

Dr. Robin DiAngelo is author of What Does it Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy, and co-author with Ozlem Sensoy of Is Everyone Really Equal? An introduction to key concepts in social justice education. She is a former Associate Professor of Education, a Lecturer at the University of Washington, and the Director of Equity at Sound Generations in …

RePlacing Church 49: All Politics Is Local

In this episode of the RePlacing Church Podcast, I talk about the relationship between the church and politics, God’s political platform as expressed in Psalm 146 and Jesus, and 3 post-election practices for the local church. *Get your free RePlacing Church Resource List, a guide to being and becoming church in the neighborhood! SUBSCRIBE, RATE, and REVIEW The RePlacing Church Podcast on iTunes, or listen on Stitcher, Google …

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A Textbook for Church Planting, Mentoring, and Missional Incarnational Movements

I love practitioner credibility.  I love it when people who have actually done what they purport needs doing are able to share, from experience, in intelligible, compelling, and digestible ways, guidance about to lead.  In The Church as Movement, JR Woodward and Dan White Jr. bring practitioner credibility in spades.  Leaders of one of the most fruitful church planting movements in …

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Becoming Missional Insiders

I still remember a day thirty years ago when I walked out of a large, new master planned community in Southern California. The gates were being installed, and because I didn’t live there, I thought I would never get back inside again to meet people and share Christ. On the way out, though, I noticed a small note posted to …