Category: Community Development
Making Heartspace: Cocreating Integrated Faith Community with Our Immigrant Neighbors
by Allison McCready | Oct 29, 2020 | Community Development | 0 |
We’ve all been learning a lot about relationships during the Covid-19 pandemic. Stay-at-home...
Read MoreFrom the Editor: Better Together—Cultural Diversity and “Copowerment”
by Forrest Inslee | Sep 24, 2020 | Community Development | 0 |
As a journal oriented around regional culture, we do not seek to artificially harmonize differences among Cascadian points of view; rather, we promote honest discourse that encourages us to open our hearts and minds to the views of those who are essentially “other” to us.
Read MoreA Cascadian Shift in Perspective
by Dr. J. Derek McNeil | Jul 30, 2020 | Community Development | 0 |
Too often we are vulnerable to seeing G-d present only in our traditions, and not in their evolution. But in Cascadia, we are compelled to recognize that our traditions cannot contain G-d. Here in Cascadia, it is clear to me that G-d is present in the movement toward complexity, the burst of chaos. Here, I see G-d’s Spirit hovering over the waters. This kind of growth can be more difficult to discern. It looks so different from what we might expect. But Cascadia is indeed a place where theology is being explored and church is being done, but it is done in new and exploratory ways. The church here is not less than, just different.
Read MoreLocal Ministry: A Cord of Three Strands
by Lynne Baab | Mar 6, 2019 | Community Development | 0 |
How do we strengthen our local ministry efforts? By weaving together missional ministry, pastoral...
Read MoreThe Cascadian Self
by David Warkentin | Nov 5, 2018 | Community Development | 0 |
What does it mean to be Cascadian? Do you have to be born here? Do you have to live here a certain...
Read MoreExploring “Church Planting in Post-Christian Soil”
by Christopher James | Oct 1, 2018 | Community Development | 0 |
Most have heard that the church in Seattle is dying, but is that the whole story? Dr. Christopher...
Read MorePubs And Coffeehouses: A Drinker’s Defense Of Democracy
by Matthew Kaemingk | May 1, 2017 | Community Development | 0 |
“Our democracy had its origins in the local taverns of the revolutionary era.” – Ray...
Read MoreWelcome to the Land of Losers
by David Warkentin | Dec 20, 2016 | Community Development | 0 |
Cascadian athletes have experienced a lot of disappointment, but there’s still plenty to cheer....
Read More“What Do You Do?”
by Marisa Gronholz | Jun 28, 2016 | Community Development | 0 |
Gail Song Bantum on the awkwardness of answering that question as a pastor in Seattle.
Read MoreGuess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner?
by Randy Woodley | May 24, 2016 | Community Development | 0 |
Northwest Christians are caring, conscientious, and friendly. So why won’t they invite you into...
Read MoreReflecting on 10 Years of Youth Ministry in the Northwest
by Chris Nye | May 16, 2016 | Community Development | 0 |
What I’ve learned by leading young people in Portland. I am one of those youth pastors who started...
Read MoreTapping Into Community
by David Arinder | May 9, 2016 | Community Development | 0 |
Christians have heard all about the dangers of alcohol but what about the benefits? Imagine...
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