The Importance of Tradition

What is the place of ‘the tradition’ in Church life and our theology? Should us new church types even care about the last two thousand years of Church life? I recently read a book about the Lord’s Supper written by a pioneer of the British New Churches back in the 1980s. I agreed and disagreed… Continue reading The Importance of Tradition

You Become What You Do, and Who You Do It With

Christian Formation II If we’re formed by what we think, what we feel, and what we do—as I’ve argued we are—how does being formed by what we do work? I think there are two components to this: community and habit. We become what we do. James K. A. Smith’s famous ‘pedagogy of desire’ argues that… Continue reading You Become What You Do, and Who You Do It With