Skip to content
Skip to content
dwight j. friesen

dwight j. friesen

neighbor | practical theologian | author | he/they

Menu

  • Home
  • Consulting
    • 2025 Consultation Offer
  • Speaking
  • Teaching
    • The Seattle School
  • Collaborating
  • Writing
    • Blog Archive
    • 2020s Foresight
    • The New Parish
    • Post-colonial Narrative Methodology
    • Signs of the Times
    • The Gospel After Christendom
    • Routes & Radishes
    • Thy Kingdom Connected
    • Orthoparadoxy
    • Living Incarnationally
    • Emerging Churches
    • Relational Hermeneutic
    • Community
    • Endorsements
  • Presencing Practices
  • About
    • Home Life
    • Pascal
    • My Neighborhood
    • …Because We Are
    • Equity & Mutuality
    • Connecting

Impermanence

Suffering is NOT Punishment, Pleasure is NOT Reward

Suffering is NOT Punishment, Pleasure is NOT Reward

Breath is life. Inhaling… Exhaling… Things come together and things fall a part. Into every life comes pain & suffering, and joy & pleasure. Suffering is not Divine judgement any more than pleasure is God’s reward. Both are part of

Dwight J. Friesen September 4, 2021November 4, 2021

Can anything be Static?

Can anything be Static?

In the pomo world boundaries and such definitions are shot to heck;-). Nothing is seen as static, instead all is understood holistically and dynamically. When we start talking about a relational way of being and doing church or organic this,

Dwight J. Friesen August 5, 2003November 19, 2021

Fall of the Mighty Kingdome

Fall of the Mighty Kingdome

Part of what I will remember about 2000 was the implosion of Seattle’s Kingdome. Its amazing to me that those things that seem so solid can be gone so quickly. A form of impermanence… I have survived longer than this

Dwight J. Friesen December 18, 2000October 22, 2022

Formative Practices

  • Ad Busters
  • Book of Common Prayer
  • Celtic Prayer
  • Center for Action & Contemplation
  • Divine Hours
  • God Space
  • Inner Development Goals (IDGs)
  • Insight Timer
  • Lectionary
  • Sloww
  • Spirituality for Trauma Survivors
  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • Taize

Linking with Organizations

  • Christian Peacemaker Teams
  • Equal Justice Initiative
  • Jesus Radicals
  • Micah Global
  • Sojourners
  • The Global Church Project
  • The Other Journal
  • The Work of the People

Multifaith & Ecumenical Connections

  • Christian Churches Together
  • Faith Action Network
  • Faith For Cities
  • Interfaith Community Sanctuary
  • National Council of Churches
  • Parliament of the World's Religions
  • The Church Council of Greater Seattle
  • The Pluralism Project
  • World Council of Churches

Podcasts

  • Embedded Church Podcast
  • Friends Like Us
  • On Being
  • Queerology
  • Reality Studies
  • Redemptification Podcast
  • Strong Towns Podcast
  • Talking Headways Podcast
  • Tara Brach
  • The Witness
  • Truth's Table
  • Wild

Rooting in Place

  • Better Cities Films Festival
  • CCDA
  • Center For Environmental Leadership
  • Christ & Cascadia
  • City Observatory
  • Compassionate Citizens
  • Design Justice
  • Making Housing Happen
  • Parish Collective
  • Proximity Project
  • Rooted Good
  • Strong Towns
  • The Good Neighbor Movement
  • UN-Habitat
  • Urban Shalom Society

Shalomic Voices

  • Bob & Gracie Ekblad
  • Brenda Salter McNeil
  • Brian McLaren
  • Cornel West
  • Daniel Schmachtenberger
  • Dominique DuBois Gilliard
  • Eliacin Rosario Cruz
  • Esther Lightcap Meek
  • Eugene Cho
  • Iain McGilchrist
  • James Alison
  • James Howard Kunstler
  • John Vervaeke
  • Jonathan Brooks
  • Jonathan Rowson
  • Jonny Baker
  • José Humphreys
  • Kwok Pui-Lan
  • Leanne Friesen
  • Majora Carter
  • Margaret J. Wheatley
  • Mark Scandrette
  • Micah Bournes
  • Mitzi J. Smith
  • N. T. Wright
  • Peter Block
  • Peter Enns
  • Peter Rollins
  • Peterson Toscano
  • Randy Woodley
  • Romal Tune
  • Soong-Chan Rah
  • Tall Skinny Kiwi
  • Thomas Jay Oord
  • Tim Soerens
  • Tripp Fuller

Website Pages

  • Home
  • Consulting
  • Speaking
  • Teaching
  • Collaborating
  • Writing
  • Presencing Practices
  • About

Recurring Blog Themes

Art Beauty Book(s) Change Church Community Conversation Death Dwight J. Friesen Emergent Village Emerging Church Faithful Presence Justice Leadership Learning Life Love Media Mission Music Neighborhood New Parish Church Poetry Prayer Quest - A Christ Commons Questions Race Reading Recap Relationality Remembering Resources SDGs Seattle Shalomic Imagination Speaking & Teaching Spirituality Sustainability Theology The Seattle School Top 10 Top Ten UN Habitat United Nations Writing

Blog Categories

  • Abundant Resources
  • Culture Creating
  • Life Practices
  • Orthoparadoxical Theologizing
  • Parish Church
  • Shalomic Imagination

Archive . Since 2000

Copyright © 2025 dwight j. friesen All rights reserved.Theme: Spacious Pro by ThemeGrill. Powered by: WordPress
  • Home
  • Consulting
  • Speaking
  • Teaching
  • Collaborating
  • Writing
  • Presencing Practices
  • About
×