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Revitalization
Remixing Leadership: A Shared Mode
Circuit riders, traveling great distances across the frontier and overseeing multiple communities, had to employ a leadership strategy that was shared, relational, decentralized, and self-organized. Their approach has implications for the network society today.
Part Three – Reimagining The Parish
Bringing back the circuit rider for a new missional frontier requires us to rethink what we mean by “parish.” If the world is truly our parish, how do we re-envision …
Bring Back the Circuit Rider
Part Two – “Digital Circuits and Riding the Flows“ The early circuit riders crisscrossed wide swaths of terrain on horseback. 21st century circuit riders are traveling a new global …
Bring Back the Circuit Rider
Part 1 “The Lost Genius of Early Methodism” In A Field Guide to Methodist Fresh Expressions, I suggested we need to rethink and reemploy the tradition of the circuit rider.[1] …
Resurrection is the Monkey Wrench
To all my friends who have not seen the inside of your sanctuaries for over a year. If you have known the pain of long-time members leaving to worship or even join the so-called “open” church around the corner. I want to give you a word of hope and encouragement.