We just arrived at the Isle of Iona. Words cannot describe what my eyes are attempting to capture.
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Although there are many memorable moments when one goes on a spiritual pilgrimage to Iona, two stand out in my mind from my recent experience.
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I am a native North Carolinian and, though I am not as old as the saying is, I remember North Carolina’s logo, “Variety Vacationland.”
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I have spent a majority of my adult life in a fifteen passenger van going from state to state playing country music. I would not trade one thing for my years on the road, nor the hundreds of thousands of miles I drove in that time.
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The context I am serving in is a long-standing Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) church that is in the midst of a lot of transition.
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Long ago in the small, calm city of Atlanta, two churches had thriving ministries in their neighborhoods.
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Since 2010, thirteen new Methodist Churches have been born in Northern Tanzania. Most of these churches were in areas of extreme poverty, domestic violence, and hunger where children regularly died of preventable diseases.
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Most people would think that because I am a self-taught chef who operates a catering business, the table is all about the food for me.
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A lot of questions come at you post-pilgrimage. The easy ones are asked by polite friends that want you to know they noticed you were gone for a bit. “Have a good time? Glad you went?” Easy. “I had a wonderful time. I’m very glad I went.”
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My mom loves to describe a cartoon she saw once. Imagine a turtle decked out in a sweat band trailing behind a collection of other animals.
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Three years ago I began the Incarnational Study Series. I wanted to create a system of tools that could be used online and in person to develop Christian Community in an accessible way.
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The Missional Wisdom Foundation has been following the unfolding events surrounding the pandemic spread of COVID-19.
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I sat on the concrete steps to my first house. It wasn't a sitting porch, it wasn't even a rocking chair porch, it was an exaggerated stoop with enough overhang to keep postal boxes and one lonely, new mom dry.
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How do you establish, maintain, and nurture a Dispersed Community?
This is one of the primary questions that pushes my work with the MWF.
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The Missional Wisdom Foundation has a Rule of Life. Did you know that?
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I love the MWF words “alternative Christian community.” I was not brought up going to church, but as a teenager I longed for community.
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It had just rained. I remember because my nose hadn’t yet adjusted to the new pungent odors around the table. We were all anxious for food, so the chatter was at a minimum.
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In earlier centuries, thousands of Christians took it upon themselves to become friars “on the move” so as to be found around neighborhoods where Christian community was weak or non-existent.
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Starting with a spark in the sticks, the Holy Spirit has a crackling flame now in a small rural community in Virginia. We have a fledging cradle for the birth of a new thing on fourteen acres along a major highway including a restaurant and motel.
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