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Hello and welcome to another episode, well actually a re-release of my conversation with Chris Smith which was originally released on March 12, 2024. Chris and I are re-releasing this episode as Chris just published a new book entitled The Virtue of Dialogue as part of the Cultivating Communities series. This series is part of a project by Englewood Church in Indiana in partnership with Missio Alliance and the Ekklesia Project. The hope of this series is to offer congregations, churches, or any community for that matter field guides to aid in their transformation away from the societal forces of polarization and division and into the way and personhood of Jesus. One of the central practices for communities is being conversation with one another. This book outlines how Englewood Church has sought to practice conversation for decades. At its core, this conversational practice is a practice of hospitality—of welcoming one another, being seen and heard. Conversation at its core is a creation of a free space to allow the other to become the person they were meant to be. Week after week, month after month, year after year.  Chris and my conversation touch on these themes and so we both thought it was a good time to revisit this conversation. If this piques your interest, please buy The Virtue of Dialogue, available now on Amazon and through Englewood's website which is in the show notes.Buy The Virtue of Dialogue: Englewood website or AmazonIn this episode I have a rich conversation with Chris Smith. We cover a range of topics, starting with his own personal journey of food over the past ten years. But we spend the majority of our time using a couple of Chris's books, namely Slow Church and How the Body of Christ Talks, to dialogue about the importance of conversation for the health of ourselves and our community. Through recovering of conversation, we begin to see how God wants to collaborate with us in his work of redemption.C. Christopher Smith is the founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He and his wife Jeni have three adult children and are members of Englewood Christian Church on the urban Near Eastside of Indianapolis. Chris is the co-author of the award-winning book Slow Church, and author of several other books including most recently, How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church. Most of his latest writings end up on The Englewood Review's Substack, TheConversationalLife.substack.comThis episode of the Biggest Table is brought to you in part by Wild Goose Coffee. Since 2008, Wild Goose has sought to build better communities through coffee. For our listeners, Wild Goose is offering a special promotion of 20% off a one time order using the code TABLE at checkout. To learn more and to order coffee, please visit wildgoosecoffee.com. 

In this episode I have a rich conversation with Chris Smith. We cover a range of topics, starting with his own personal journey of food over the past ten years. But we spend the majority of our time using a couple of Chris's books, namely Slow Church and How the Body of Christ Talks, to dialogue about the importance of conversation for the health of ourselves and our community. Through recovering of conversation, we begin to see how God wants to collaborate with us in his work of redemption.C. Christopher Smith is the founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He and his wife Jeni have three adult children and are members of Englewood Christian Church on the urban Near Eastside of Indianapolis. Chris is the co-author of the award-winning book Slow Church, and author of several other books including most recently, How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church. Most of his latest writings end up on The Englewood Review's Substack, TheConversationalLife.substack.comThis episode of the Biggest Table is brought to you in part by Wild Goose Coffee. Since 2008, Wild Goose has sought to build better communities through coffee. For our listeners, Wild Goose is offering a special promotion of 20% off a one time order using the code TABLE at checkout. To learn more and to order coffee, please visit wildgoosecoffee.com. 

Dedication takes time. It takes practice. It takes excitement and commitment. When you add love to time, practice, excitement, and commitment, what you get is devotion. What the New Testament calls for is intimate connection through deep commitment within a covenant community. One that blesses those inside, blesses those on the outside, puts the world on notice and causes the world to take notice. A people who inspire because they have been inspired.The sermon today is titled "Devotion." It is the second installment in our "Community" Series. The Scripture reading is from Acts 2:42 (ESV) and Romans 12:3-11 (GW). Originally preached at the West Side Church of Christ (Searcy, AR) on April 30, 2023. All lessons fit under one of 5 broad categories: Begin, Discover, Grow, Learn, and Serve. This sermon is filed under DISCOVER: A New Community.Click here if you would like to watch the sermon or read a transcript.Footnotes (Sources and References Used In Today's Podcast):Tish Harrison Warren, "Chapter 9: Calling A Friend: Congregation and Community," in Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life (2016), pp. 115-27.Donald Miller, "Why I Don't Go To Church Very Often, A Follow Up Blog," Storyline blog (Feb 5, 2014). See also Donald Miller facebook post, "The faith I keep, and the religion I leave behind," (Oct 26, 2021). Partially referenced in Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary.Cyprian (AD 200-258), On the Unity of the Church, Treatise 1, sect. 6.Francis Chan, Letters to the Church (2018), "Chapter 4: The Gang."Philip Yancey, Church: Why Bother? (1998), pp. 24-27.George A. Smith, The Apple Tree Community (1960). Referenced in C. Christopher Smith & John Pattison, Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus (2014).Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey Vows. Referenced in Smith & Pattison, Slow Church.I'd love to connect with you!Watch sermons and find transcripts at nathanguy.com.Follow along each Sunday through YouTube livestream and find a study guide and even kids notes on the sermon notes page.Follow me @nathanpguy (facebook/instagram/twitter)Subscribe to my email newsletter on substack.

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Work, when done well, is meant to be a filling, satisfying experience that brings beauty and meaning to the world we live in. Yet, work can often be seen as a slog that drains life from our souls and creates systems that dehumanize others. Join us this week as we discuss how to find the work you have been created to do and offer others the best gift you have to give.

This week we began exploring the book Slow Church in order to paint a picture of who we as a church desire to be.  What is Awaken's mission and how are we living it out here in Westchester?  Listen now as we begin this new phase of Awaken's journey!

Today we're talking about slow church with Chris Smith, editor of The Englewood Review of Books and author of How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering The Practice of Conversation in the Church. What is slow church? Can mega-churches embrace the movement? How do desire-driven economics shape our communities and liturgies? And how does hospitality renew our liturgical life? Join us as we reflect on what it means to be the body of Christ in a McDonaldized world.To learn more about Regent College and our upcoming courses, visit: www.regent-college.edu.

Aimee Laramore, lead consultant at AlLyd Solutions, joins Ben and Matt to discuss the importance of recognizing the assets your congregation has and the importance of using them to accomplish your goals. Along the way Aimee provides wonderful wisdom from her many years of experience as a fundraising consultant about managing these difficult times. Resources Pathways to Generosity (article) - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pathways-generosity-aimee-laramore-mba/ Slow Church (book) - https://www.amazon.com/Slow-Church-Cultivating-Community-Patient/dp/0830841148 The Practice of Adaptive Leadership (book) - https://thecrg.org/resources/the-practice-of-adaptive-leadership-tools-and-tactics-for-changing-your-organization-and-the-world Next: Pastoral Succession that Works (book) - https://thecrg.org/resources/next-pastoral-succession-that-works The Nature of Adaptive Leadership (video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfLLDvn0pI8 Leading Your African American Church through Pastoral Transitions (book) - https://thecrg.org/resources/leading-your-african-american-church-through-pastoral-transitions You can find Aimee Laramore at her consulting website - http://www.allyd.com/ We'd love to hear from you. Reach out to us at podcast@centerforcongregations.org to let us know what you think of the pod, with resource recommendations of your own or ideas for future topics or guests.

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In 1986, the Italian journalist Carlo Petrini organized a protest of the opening of a McDonald’s restaurant near the Spanish Steps in Rome. Holding bowls of penne pasta, the protestors chanted, “We don’t want fast food, we want slow food.” By one standard, the protest was unsuccessful: the McDonald’s opened as planned. (It was apparently such a big deal that teenagers “nearly stormed the restaurant, stopping traffic and causing havoc in the streets.”) Yet not all was lost, because out of that demonstration was birthed Slow Food, an international movement that now has 150,000 members worldwide. Slow Food helps save endangered foods and food traditions, promotes local food and drink, and re-educates industrialized eaters on how to enjoy real food again. We’re so far removed from where our food comes from that we literally have to re-learn how to taste. Slow Food has also gone on to inspire other Slow movements, including Slow Money and Slow Cities. While these movements differ in subject, scope, and strategy, what they have in common is their opposition to what the sociologist George Ritzer described as McDonaldization, or “the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society.” Ritzer identified four core values of McDonaldization: Efficiency Predictability Calculability (a focus on countable results) and Control, which runs through all the others. Food, money, and cities aren’t, of course, the only areas of life to have ceded ground to the “cult of speed.” According to Strong Towns content manager John Pattison, the North American church has proven just as susceptible as the rest of culture to the promises of McDonaldization. That’s why for the better part of a decade, John and his friend Chris Smith have been exploring and promoting the concept of “Slow Church.” A Slow Church is a faith community deeply rooted in the pace and place of its neighborhood, a church working with neighbors to weave a fabric of care in their particular place. Together, John and Chris wrote the book Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus. In this week’s episode of the Strong Towns podcast—the final episode of 2020—Strong Towns president Chuck Marohn invited John to talk about Slow Church and how the Slow Church and Strong Towns conversations overlap. They discuss what it means to be a “slow church,” the importance of proximity, why human beings are “called to community,” and what a polarized country can learn from the stunning diversity among Jesus’ apostles. They also talk about how churches are working in their neighborhoods, "grocery aisle accountability," and how—led by churches—John’s town has made eating together part of the community fabric. Additional Show Notes: Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus, by John Pattison and C. Christopher Smith “Conversation: A Neighborhood’s Way of Life,” by C. Christopher Smith “How Sharing Food Can Strengthen Communities,” by Hilary Dumitrescu John Pattison (Twitter) Charles Marohn (Twitter) Related content from Strong Towns “The Bottom-Up Revolution is...Empowering Churches to Connect with Their Neighborhoods” (Podcast) “Walk Humbly: How Faith Communities Can Help Build Stronger Towns,” by John Pattison “Does God Care How Wide a Road Is?” by John Pattison “Living in Communion,” by Charles Marohn “Faith Communities Can Help Build Vibrant Neighborhoods,” by Jennifer Griffin “How (and Why) to Make Your Church Bike-Friendly,” by Sara Joy Proppe “Conversations on Faith: Sikhs and the City,” by Johnny Sanphillippo “Conversations on Faith: Mormonism and Strong Towns,” by Spencer Gardner

Fast food is efficient, it’s reliable, it’s predictable and it’s incredibly unhealthy in large quantities. We desire to be, not fast church, but slow church because love, grace, compassion, mercy, justice and relationships take time to grow. We desire to… Read More Refuge.Basics // Slow Church The post Refuge.Basics // Slow Church appeared first on Refuge.Church.

Fast food is efficient, it’s reliable, it’s predictable and it’s incredibly unhealthy in large quantities. We desire to be, not fast church, but slow church because love, grace, compassion, mercy, justice and relationships take time to grow. We desire to… Read More Refuge.Basics // Slow Church

Five years ago (4/16/15) we hosted C. Christopher Smith for a talk and potluck conversation (sponsored by Duke Divinity School’s Thriving Rural Communities Initiative ). Chris Smith is editor of The Englewood Review of Books, and a member of the Englewood Christian Church community on the urban Near Eastside of Indianapolis.  Englewood is one of the churches whose experiences gave root to the concept […]

Christopher Smith is a writer, community developer, and founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He has authored a number of books, including the award-winning Slow Church. This week he joins me on the podcast to talk about How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church. ... The post Christopher Smith-episode 176 appeared first on Anita Lustrea.

Chris Cox introduces our new series Slow, based around Slow Church and exploring the concept of cultivating community in the patient way of Jesus.

Today our guest is C. Christopher Smith, a member of Englewood Christian Church in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the editor of the Englewood Review of Books and is the author of Slow Church (co-authored with John Pattison), Reading For the Common Good, and the upcoming book on conversations called How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church. (*I grabbed the title post-episode, FYI) Check out his Amazon Author Page here.Christopher and his family live in Indianapolis, IN. You can engage with him on Facebook and Twitter as well.Recommendations/mentions in this week's episode:Faithful Presence: 7 Disciplines that Shape the Church for Mission, David FitchThe work of Jean Vanier in books like this and through the L'Arche Communities he founded.Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone, Brene BrownAdopted: The Sacrament of Belonging In a Fractured World, Kelly NikondehaMusic for otherWISE by Austin MartinotherWISE logo by Eric Wright/Metamora Design

In their book, “Slow Church,” Christopher Smith and John Pattison write: “Spiritual formation occurs primarily in the context of community.  Long term interpersonal relationships are the crucible of genuine progress in the Christian life.  People who stay, grow.  People who leave, do not grow.  It is that simple but profound biblical reality that we both grow and thrive together or we do not grow much at all.”  This Sunday Pastor Jeremy will explore the real-time implications of this reality for our life here at StAAC.

Chris Smith is editor of The Englewood Review of Books, and a member of Englewood Christian Church, a church which helped spark Chris' book Slow Church. Nathan chats with him about living and reading slower and more intentionally.

Dave Lomas speaks on Reality SF's value of rootedness in John 15:1-17.

John Pattison and C. Christopher Smith join Fr. Benjamin Gildas to discuss their book "Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus." With all of the talk of church attendance decline in the Episcopal Church and mainline denominations, the language of the "slow food movement" offers some helpful corrections and might spark the imagination of churches into thinking about God's abundance. We discuss Asset Based Community Development, God's economy, abundance, scarcity, and much more. https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B00HUCPSE4&asin=B00HUCPSE4&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm

I had the chance to talk with Christ Smith, author of Slow Church, at the recent CCDA Conference in Memphis, Tennessee.  Chris is the editor of the Englewood Review of Books and member of the Englewood Christian Church community in Indianapolis, IN.  Check his website out at http://www.slowchurch.com and look for his latest book, Reading […] The post #049: Chris Smith, Author of Slow Church appeared first on Missional Discipleship.

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Root and Branch member Kjirsten Glessner shares her thoughts on the "slow church" movement and the ways we can orient our lives in order to build true community.

4/16/15 talk and potluck conversation sponsored by Duke Divinity School’s Thriving Rural Communities Initiative and hosted by Oak Church. Chris Smith is editor of The Englewood Review of Books, and a member of the Englewood Christian Church community on the urban Near Eastside of Indianapolis.  Englewood is one of the churches whose experiences gave root to the concept of Slow Church. Chris co-authored Slow Church: Cultivating Community […]

Pastor Jonathan Dodson teaches on Sabbath as a way of life.