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Lake Hills Soup & Liturgy

Lake Hills Soup & Liturgy

As Lynette, Pascal, and I have been thinking about the rhythms of our lives, we want to experiment with bringing our everyday lives in our neighborhood with our spirituality.  While we don’t exactly know what that all means, we’d like

Dwight J. Friesen February 2, 2015November 3, 2022

seattle simple churches?

seattle simple churches?

I’m looking for links to, or contact info for simple churches and/or house churches in and around Seattle. If you know of one could you please comment on this blog entry or email me? BTW: in an effort to try

Dwight J. Friesen August 3, 2007September 21, 2022

What do we mean by ‘simple church?’

What do we mean by ‘simple church?’

Some call them house churches. Some call them organic churches. Some call them simple churches. We prefer to just call them churches. They are rapidly multiplying, simple communities of believers, meeting in homes, offices, campuses, wherever God is moving. This

Dwight J. Friesen July 18, 2007November 12, 2020

New House church site

New House church site

Welcome to a website dedicated to linking and resourcing simple churches (house churches) in Western Washington. The site has just launched and will be adding features and links to websites and email addresses to simple churches in and around Seattle.

Dwight J. Friesen July 17, 2007September 23, 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

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  • 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
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  • Thomas Jay Oord
  • Tim Soerens
  • Tripp Fuller

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