Epiphany begins with speaking God’s name, Immanuel, “God with us,” in its fullness. For it is when the savior has come. The king of the universe doesn’t sit on a throne, but lays in the poverty and ordinariness of a manger. He doesn’t come to us wearing a robe and a crown, but instead wears...
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Missio interviewed Nathan Klose about his work designing spaces as the Creative Director of Books-A-Million / 2nd & Charles. Adam Joyce: What makes a good space? What does a good, as you have said, “visual grammar” look like? Nathan Klose: A good space is a contextual space. Environment is the provision of contexts, because when you walk...
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For Holy Week, Missio interviewed Mark Higgins, President of Hall-Wynne Funeral Service & Crematory in Durham, NC on his work as funeral director and the theology and practices of good funerals. Given that this week we remember the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is appropriate to reflect on the practices of how Christians...
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I read a wonderful passage this weekend in Alan Jacobs’ Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant. “Last Christmas Day my pastor, Martin Johnson, spoke of his youthful habit of walking in the forests of British Columbia at night, guided only by moonlight. It was remarkable how far he could see by that meager illumination, how delicately...
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Phillip Jensen grew up in rural Iowa. He and his family returned there three years ago to follow their particular calling of farming and ministry. They grow several acres of vegetables for the CSA (community-supported garden) that they started, have a herd of Red Wattle hogs, a flock of hens, and a milk cow. He...
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“An uncalled life is an autonomous existence in which there is no intrusion, disruption, or redefinition, no appearance or utterance of the Holy. We may imagine in our autonomous existence, moreover, that no one knows our name until we announce it, and no one requires anything of us except that for which we volunteer. The...
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