Living Simply, Living Organically

In a recent email exchange, a friend made the comment that he viewed himself as sort of an anomaly, to which I responded “you are an anomaly!” (I didn’t put an exclamation point on it in the email, but I did in my mind. It was such a perfect word.)

But since my response was meant to be an encouragement, I thought I’d best look up the word in the dictionary before hitting “send”. Though my first reaction to the word was positive, when I worked in systems design an anomaly was never a good thing.… Continue

Here's a reflection I published on my blog today (alternativechurch.wordpress.com).

A few weeks ago I was discussing with my mother what I appreciated about the teaching style of a pastor friend of mine, which led to a discussion of how two people can say basically the same thing, but with one it's just words, but the other there is life because there is depth behind the words. To this my mother asked, pondering, "What do you think it… Continue

Hello SimpleChurch.com community! Not been hanging out here quite so much of late, but just posted a new entry to my blog reviewing the 1987 book The Different Drum by M. Scott Peck, which I only recently read. The review is pretty detailed and has a lot of food for thought about the psychology of building community. I think Peck presents a very interesting framework for communit… Continue

Originally posted to my blog "Alternative Church". It's just a little bit of my own journey.

I grew up in the counter-culture - hippies, communal houses, civil rights marches, anti-war demonstrations, and yes organic gardening. When I was about 5 or 6, our family moved to a big farm in the country to seek intentional community, and to get back-to-nature. (All these years later, I still love the song "Woodstock" by Crosby Stills Nash an… Continue

I just ran across this social networking site tonight as I was reading the blog of one of the commenters on my blog AlternativeChurch.wordpress.com. I have long been feeling that the Christian community really has not fully tapped the whole soical networking venue, and it's exciting to see us coming out of our boxes, and thinking creatively.

I have a separate blog (noted above), so probably won't be blogging too much here, but did want to write a qu… Continue