Interview: Randy Buist of Water's Edge
by Jason Evans
Quite awhile ago it occurred to me that "community" is a loaded term.  We all talk about it, and... what does it mean?  I'm far from a brain surgeon, but it would seem to me that community is really about friendships, genuine friendships.  So, we are starting to talk about friendship instead of community.  It makes a lot more sense, and we seem to have a better understanding of friendships than community.
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An Experience Too Deep For Words
by Rich Vincent
Just because the contemplative life is the best and highest stage of Christian experience does not mean that everyone is equipped to embark on the contemplative path. Those who consider contemplation should fulfill at least four requirements.
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Where is Socrates?
by AD McCall
In this respect, our culture, and the church, is quite definitely Greco-Roman. In fact, there is a word, in Attic Greek, which carries strong connotations of both convincing and deluding. Psuchagogeo means to lead or attract, beguile or delude. Primarily, it means to lead souls to hell. We carry this concept deep within us, even today. Awareness of the dark side of rhetoric is especially prevalent among Christians; who, to be faithful to the call of Christ, simply must turn off the dominant culture's insistent voice.
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Maybe We Should Just Stop Praying
by Bob Hyatt
I think I’ve come to the conclusion that most of us, myself included, just need to stop praying. I don’t say that lightly… but I almost feel that it would be better to have no prayer in our lives than the kind of prayer that most of us, myself included, have.
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From the archives: Buffy the Backside Slayer
by Andrew Jones, originally published May-June 2002
Doug Pagitt is shorter than me. You need to know that before I tell you about him. Doug and I have been working out at the health club --- he in Minneapolis and me in Prague, Czech Republic. We have this competitive thing going on. I don't want him to be much bigger than me. He already might . . . I say MIGHT . . . be a little taller than me. Don't tell him I said that.
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