George Patterson Video: 1 of 5

May 4, 2009 // No Comments »

For those who missed our special presentation by George Patterson this spring, we are happy to be able to make the video available. While a YouTube video isn’t the same as being there, what George had to share that day makes watching these videos worth the effort — see these reflections from Jonathan Dodson for a teaser of George’s content.)

We will post two segments of the video each week. Here are the first two:

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Missiology, Reflections

The Big Sort

March 1, 2009 // No Comments »

Last Thursday Ryan Robinson recommended Bill Bishop’s book The Big Sort. Our very own Jacob Vanhorn has read the book and blogged about it here. An excerpt from the book:

…people don’t live in states. They live in communities. And those communities are not close to being in equipoise, even within solidly blue or red states. They are, most of them, becoming even more Democratic or Republican. As Americans have moved over the past three decades, they have clustered in communities of sameness, among people with similar ways of life, beliefs, and, in the end, politics.

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Books, Missiology