Friday, September 21, 2012
Do I think homeschooling and the missional life are incompatible? Absolutely not. This is the beginning of a post I wrote for the Jesus Creed blog in response to Tony Jones’s recent posts on homeschooling. ****** I recently read the posts by Tony Jones about homeschooling (“Death to Homeschooling” and “Why Homeschoolers Do Not Understand Missional”), in which he argues that homeschooling by its very nature runs counter to missional living. Jones states that “missional means showing Christlike compassion to other human beings and to all of creation,” and that choosing to homeschool ones’ children results in an abdication of our “God-given role as a missional member of society.” Let me just highlight two fallacies in Jones’s arguments, and offer my…
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Yesterday, I was talking with one of my sons about friends who are planning to enter into the mission field soon. I was sharing my excitement for their decision when my son interrupted me. “Will we be moving to another country, too?” His voice reflected anxiety, not excitement, worry clouding his face. “I don’t know,” I told him. “I don’t know if that will be God’s call for us. But whether he is calling us to the mission field or not, he is still calling for us to be missionaries wherever we are.” “So, we don’t have to move anytime soon?” he pressed. “That would be really hard.” I could completely relate to his feelings. I am a homebody, someone…
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Friday, February 4, 2011
Scot McKnight wears many hats: he is the Karl A. Olsson professor in religious studies at North Park University in Chicago; he is a popular and award-winning author, with his latest offering, One.Life (an excellent read!) hitting the shelves this past December; and, he is an active blogger at the widely-read Jesus Creed blog, rated by Technorati.com as the #1 site for the Emerging Church. I’m also honored to call him a supporter of my book The Missional Mom, both as an endorser and as a reviewer of the book. What follows is the full interview I did with Scot while researching for this book; he sheds light on how to understand the word “missional” and how the term applies to mothers in the church. Here is the first part of a…
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