Between Babel and Pentecost: What Kind of Future Are We Building?
At Babel we try to secure our future through what we build; at Pentecost the Spirit forms a community we cannot manufacture.
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The Cost of Convenience: AI, Creation, and Our Neighbors
Consider the workers, communities, and creation whose burdens can be hidden beneath technological convenience.
Open resource →The Work That Is Ours to Do: AI and the Pastoral Vocation
Pastoral ministry is more than completing tasks: AI invites us to reconsider vocation, leadership, and the ministry of the whole church.
Open resource →A Companion in Thinking, Not a Substitute for Wisdom
Explore how AI can challenge an emerging biblical interpretation without assuming the responsibilities of wisdom or proclamation.
Open resource →Bearing Witness in a World of Fabricated Voices
The church is called to preserve truth through shared discernment, faithful witness, and reformation according to the Word of God.
Open resource →A Rule of Life for the Age of AI — Draft Covenant
A starting point for communal discernment: shared commitments to examine, adapt, amend, or set aside—not an official AI policy.
Open resource →Holding the Conversation and Sustaining the Practice
Prepare a hospitable conversation, respond to difficulty, and sustain one manageable practice between meetings.
Open resource →Scripture and Sources
Read the biblical passages in context and explore the theological sources that inform the collection.
Open resource →Start Here: What Is This For?
A guide to six monthly conversations, one continuing practice, and a shared rhythm of Scripture, listening, discernment, and prayer.
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What Is Our Work For?
Connect one ordinary responsibility with the people it serves and the fruit you hope it will bear in Christ's ministry.
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What Season Are We In?
Discern what the community needs now and choose a sustainable response that fits this season.
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How Does Our Part Serve the Whole?
Strengthen one relationship through which your group's responsibilities contribute to the ministry of the whole community.
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Whose Gifts Are We Learning to Recognize?
Learn to recognize, invite, and support another person's gifts without reducing that person to a vacancy or an unpaid task.
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What Are Our Meetings Teaching Us?
Change one repeated meeting practice so it strengthens shared discernment and ministry between meetings.
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What Is Growing Among Us?
Recognize fruit honestly, celebrate specific contributions, and choose one practice to sustain for the next three months.
Open resource →Mission and the Shalom of Christ
Explore Christ’s shalom and the questions that connect committee work with discipleship, belonging, justice, care, and faithful change.
Open resource →What is This For?
Leadership, Shared Purpose, and the Shalom of Christ A meeting can go remarkably well. The agenda is completed, reports are received, decisions are made,…
Open resource →Watch for Joy
Let spacious listening sharpen recognition of Christ’s restoring work and make honest joy possible.
Open resource →Watch for the Unexpected
Move from recognition to receptivity by welcoming honest questions, surprising witnesses, and a future we did not design.
Open resource →Watch and Welcome
Complete the arc as received grace becomes room for Christ, shared authority, and good news carried outward.
Open resource →Advent Watchfulness Without Forced Cheerfulness
A companion for leading Advent formation with room for grief, accessible practices, careful discernment, and consequential welcome.
Open resource →Building a Legacy of Generosity
Complete the arc by entrusting resources and real authority so generous habits become a shared future rather than a protected inheritance.
Open resource →Watch with Hope
Begin by attending to God’s remembered faithfulness and the new thing that may already be springing forth.
Open resource →Watch in the Wilderness
Move from attention to spacious listening, allowing the wilderness to reveal grief, tenderness, obstacles, and good news.
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