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advent 2024: peace and joy
This will be two advent reflections in one as all my intentions last week to write for the week of peace have been delayed to now. peace I started the week of peace a bit of confusion, trying to distinguish it from the previous week of hope. I remember asking myself on Monday morning, How…
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reflections on one year: one final “dear church”
In this series Over the years I’ve written several dear church posts to my former congregation that were reproduced on the church’s blog. This final one will remain on this site alone: Dear King’s Cross Church, Thank you. For a long time after my departure, it was difficult for me to see you all as…
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advent 2024: hope
in adventToday is the first Sunday of Advent. In our home, we read the first story of the New Testament in The Book of Belonging. It begins, “We are called Beloved, but we feel forgotten.” I love that the first story in the New Testament enters into the Advent season without being shy about the turmoil…
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cultural translation of the gospel
In seminary, I was part of a program that was a partnership between The Newbigin House of Studies and Western Theological Seminary that focused on urban church planting. During the course of my studies, there was a work that was central to our program: The Ephesian Moment. It’s an essay/chapter in The Cross-Cultural Process in…
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two dangers to avoid in cultural translation
For the past several weeks, I’ve been slowly writing a long post about the cultural translation of the gospel for today with reference to Andrew Walls’s Ephesian Moment. It’s gotten long. And as I’m editing, there’s a large portion that pains me to cut because I spent so much time writing it so now it’s…
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reflections on one year: gratitude
In this series It’s taking a while to go through my story. I’m going at whatever pace I think I can go. I’m glad I left headings so I know what’s next as I read (and these headings also inform me of when I might need to stop). Yet as I bounce back and forth…
