A place for people who feel hurt or uncomfortable in traditional church settings to experience Jesus Community.
Artistic, introspective, spiritual Jesus-focused, therapeutic, AMAZING.
A safe place for people to discover what it means to follow Jesus. Enabling people to live out the command to love others, even the forgotten and overlooked.
So far, it’s potentially the kind of community that I’ve been hoping to be a part of and I had to come to SF to find it.
Encouraging people to think about their faith and allow it to change them.
Bringing a refreshing breath of air to Christ-followers who are looking to escape their stale position.

Talking about Talking about God and Sex

Yesterday I did a skype video interview with a group of folks in another city who together are reading through my book, Practicing the Way of Jesus. They asked me, if I’d done any new experiments since I wrote the book –and I mentioned the series of story telling nights we’ve been having about spiritualityread more

Submitted by mark on May 15, 2012 - 12:52pm


THIN PLACES

Well, it finally happened. I got asked to write a book forward– for my friend Jon Huckins (with Rob Yackley). His book, Thin Places, is now available for pre-order. What I forgot to mention in the forward, (see below),  was the sharing economy night we spent with Jon and his wife Jan a few yearsread more

Submitted by mark on May 10, 2012 - 6:49pm


God and sex: My story

Over the past few months we’ve been getting people together to share stories about where being God conscious intersects with the stuff of every day life. We will be facilitating another round of story telling about Spirituality and Sexuality next Monday night. So if you live in the Bay area,  join us to talk aboutread more

Submitted by mark on May 10, 2012 - 4:46pm


Crowd Sourcing My Next Book

Over the past few months I’ve been thinking through my next book project to follow up Practicing the Way of Jesus. What seems most timely and natural is to create a practical resource about Simplicity and Life purpose based on the workshops and Learning Lab experiments we’ve done over the past six years. Anyone who knows Lisaread more

Submitted by mark on May 7, 2012 - 1:57pm


A Community Radically Committed to Love and Practice

On Sunday I was a bit out of my league when I was invited to speak on the role of embodied practice at Church of the Sojourners in San Francisco, a twenty-five year old “live together” community that shares housing, a common purse and a deeply held commitment to love one another. They are very intentionalread more

Submitted by mark on May 1, 2012 - 11:08am