Stefon Napier

I think it's because we aren't taught to search and examine and we are exposed to entirely too much convenience and comfort.

Our adulthood is all about having certainty. Our childhood is about possibility and growth. We must then become as children.

I love to see it. Thank you for your efforts.

Embracing the Wound of Loneliness open.substack.com/pub/thehomew...

There is no oppression more dangerous than the oppression we inflict on ourselves.

Time of Refuge.

Things I've been dwelling on this week: Liberation and gentleness.

The liberation of the world back to God starts within each of us.

We have to stop suggesting that white men shouldn't be leading faith organizations. I appreciate alot of people within the deconstruction space but some of you need to know that your trauma does not give you the right to erect racial barriers.

Guys I was off today...but I guess I gotta go in...on some of these comments.

The Christian should no longer tolerate the condition in which creative movement remains outside the church and in opposition to the church, while the church is without movement and devoid of creative life.

- Nicolas Berdyaev.

Wonder: A Letter to the New Monastics To the brethren both abroad and domestic,

Letter to the New Monastics
open.substack.com/pub/thehomew...

Technological advancement..for all its benefits has taken over the role that wonder and miracles used to share.

Wonder is the means by which faith is cultivated.

Even as we seek to restore the church to the correct path you should know that being alive in Christ does not make life easier. Even if the church was all that it should be, life would still be difficult.

New Monastics is essentially a form of spiritual direction for the church.

Nature and Forgiveness I’m starting to love the person I’m becoming.

A Brief on Nature, Forgiveness, and their relationship to Community. open.substack.com/pub/thehomew...

The failure of the American Evangelical Church was that it created more sheep than priests.

Deconstruction should not merely be a process of unlearning false teachings and doctrines, but the process of reacquainting with yourself and loving what you see. If you don't deconstruct the lies you've told about yourself, deconstruction is pointless.

Post Evangelical communities must embrace a concept of stewardship towards the land. It's part of how we defeat that idea that there isn't enough. Stewardship of the land is a ministry from which other ministries can spring.

Stand in the Gap.

The 13th Mark of New Monasticism is the reclamation of wonder.

Why are mission trips to other countries okay, but when people from other places to live in community with us, it's problematic.

Meditation:
Isn't it curious that scripture tells us nothing about the history of the thief on the cross but only the promise Christ made to him. So why do you keep letting your past crucify you?

I would define New Monasticism as the practical and creative process of realigning the Church to its life mission. When disciples truly begin working out their relationship with God in all facets of their lives then the church will begin to realign with that mission.

Absolutely!

I guess it's time to sound the call. But I'm going to need help to do it!

It may be time for a gathering of New Monastic communities from across the country.
#newmonasticism