Below you will find a list of links that I’ve collected over the years. Needless to say (but I’ll say it anyways) I don’t endorse or not endorse all that these people say. I will say however, that I believe that each of these sites / blog offer value in some way or another.
Churches
- Evergreen Community Church Evergreen is a church in Portland, OR that, gasp?!, meets in a bar
- Kairos Kairos is a collection of churches in the city of Angels.
- Life on the Vine A church in the area I grew up that is awesome. Awesome in the sense that their main focus is forming a missional community and not being awesome.
- Redemption Church of Bristol The first church plant out of The Well
- Renew Community a great church in Lansdale, PA
Design Stuff
- Creativityist My friend John Chandler has some good thoughts on being creative, which I think is an important part of pastoral ministry.
Friends
- ABC Pastor Laurence Tom is a good friend and is known as “American Born Chinese Pastor” (ABCPastor). He also happens to be one of my favorite people in the world.
- Ben Sternke An Ecclesia Network Church Pastor
- Bob Hyatt An Ecclesia Network Church Pastor in Portland, OR at Evergreen Community Church
- Brent Underwood Brent is a good friend and pastor. But he never blogs. I leave this link here in the hopes that he does some day.
- Chris Marlow as his website says, Chris is simply missional :)
- David Fitch A fellow bi-vocational pastor in suburban Chicago at Life on the Vine Church. Read this guy’s blog, he’s seriously brilliant.
- Doug Paul Doug is another one of those brilliant friends I have who never blogs. Cmon Doug!
- Eugene Cho Eugene has a (figuratively) huge heart and it shows in his writing and the things he’s about.
- Gerald Hiestand My really, really, really smart brother.
- J.R. Briggs JR is a very, very good friend of mine and also a great pastor.
- J.R. Rozko JR has been fun to interact with about what it means to form missional congregations in the suburban context.
- Jason Dukes Jason might be one of the nicest people on the face of the earth. Seriously.
- Joe Myers Joe is a good friend and he serves the church well with his thoughts and writing.
- John Chandler John is a fellow missional conspirator, fellow super-nerd and all around good guy.
- JR Woodward If you have ever met JR then you know how awesome this guy is.
- Pat Loughery Pat is a great thinker on Spiritual Formation and the one responsible for me owning a motorcycle.
- Raising Purity The website for my brother’s book on rearing children.
- Ryan Bell Ryan is one of the most amazing 7th-day Adventist pastors ever.
- Scot McKnight Scot is a fellow Cubs fan and excellent writer.
- Thomas E. Ward Tom is one of my best friends in the world despite the fact that he never blogs.
- Tim Keel One of the best pastors that I know.
- Todd Littleton Todd not only has a great first name but is a good friend and pastor down in Oklahoma.
- Wes Allen Wes is a long time friend, pastor and nerd.
Friends from The Well
- Carmella Tess A friend from The Well.
- David Congdon David is a friend from The Well and he’s brilliant.
- Dorie Morgan Dorie is on the leadership team in our church plant and she’s awesome.
- Mark Licitra Mark is from The Well, one of my best friends and his blog is about Christianity and mental health. Amazing topic you say? Too bad he never blogs!!
- Scott Jones Scott is brilliant and is a great friend.
- The Writer Bee Deb is a member of The Well and is awesome.
Leadership
- Guy Kawasaki There is only one Guy Kawasaki. What else is there to say?
- Seth Godin When it comes to leadership Seth Godin just gets it.
Missional-ish
- Al Hsu Author of The Suburban Christian, an excellent book on the topic.
- Alan Hirsch Author of The Forgotten Ways & The Shaping of Things to Come. Both Excellent books.
- Alan Hitt I don’t know Alan personally but he’s a very provocative writer.
- Andrew Hamilton A missionally minded bloke from Down Under.
- Andrew Jones One of the first ever emerging church bloggers
- Brian McLaren Yes, that Brian McLaren!
- Charles Lee Founder and organizer of The Idea Camp conferences, among other things…
- Christine Sine Christine is a social activist, gardner and passionate about spiritual disciplines, liturgy and social action. Okay, that’s awesome.
- Dan Kimball Author of the book The Emerging Church
- Dave Gibbons Dave is one really, really smart leader. He’s one of my heros but he just doesn’t know it.
- DJ Chuang DJ is a super-connecting-orange-shirt-wearing-leadership-guy.
- Ed Cyzewski Don’t ask me how to pronounce his last name, but Ed is a good friend and a fantastic writer. Author of the book, Coffee House Theology.
- Eliacin Eliacin is part of the Mustard Seed House in Seattle, WA.
- Hardly Normal This guy travels around caring for the homeless. This guy is living out Isaiah 58:10 in radical ways.
- Hugh Halter Wrote the book The Tangible Kingdom.
- Jamie Arpin-Ricci Jamie is a church planter and missional-guru
- Jason Kovacs Jason is an adoption advocate. Needless to say I find that cool.
- Joe Thorn a good egg in the SBC world :)
- Jonathan Brink Jonathan has done and is doing some great thinking around missional stuff.
- Leonard Hjalmerson Leonard is doing some good missional thinking on his blog.
- Mark Riddle's Blog Mark does consulting with churches and leaders. good thinker.
- Sherman Kuek Serman is a Roman Catholic lay theologian and a Secular Franciscan and a great thinker.
- Steve McCoy Steve is a fellow suburban pastor.
- subtext a website committed to my favorite topic, suburban christianity.
Organizations
- Help End Local Poverty (HELP) This is a great non-profit that is, you guessed it, helping to end local poverty.
- One Day's Wages ODW is the dream and vision of Eugene and Minhee Cho. It’s a great org, check it out.
Places I Belong
- The Ecclesia Network This is the network of churches that The Well is part of.
- The Well The church were I pastor
