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What Mission is this Anyway?

Reflections on Mission and Missional Living Week 1 Why Don’t We Just Call it Being the Church?, Opening Editorial by Rev. Ginna Bairby The ‘Missional’ Church: Ark of Salvation or Community of Reconciliation?, Dr. Dawn DeVries Just Hospitality and The … Continue reading

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One Half-Step Out of a Hobbit Hole

“When you set out on this adventure, you will never be the same.” These are the grave but hopeful words spoken by Gandalf the Grey to a young hobbit named Bilbo; [1] and thus begins the epic tale of The Hobbit. In … Continue reading

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Why Don’t We Just Call it Being the Church?

I was sitting around a table with a group of colleagues in young adult ministries about a year and a half ago. We had been tasked with coming up with a name for a new initiative to the PC(USA)’s 221st … Continue reading

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