Living Incarnationally
This short essay was published in The Seattle School’s (then, Mars Hill Graduate School) short-lived journal, Views from the Edge.
The essay explored relational faithful presence as a bodily and communal critique of colonizing mission. Although Dwight would not use “Incarnational” in this way today, this article points to a vital pivot in his thinking and practice. A pivot away from pursuing his personal missional vision toward opening up to, discovering, and joining God’s always/already/not-yet Shalom. The piece also played an important role in shifting Dwight’s leadership imagination toward attending to and from one’s bodied reality in time and place, thus opening one up to discover the contours of “good news.”
This opening, discovering, and joining seeks a way of faithful presence in the ecosystem of relations sustaining one’s life. Listening to and from the particularity of one’s body in place and time.
Dwight regularly leads workshops, retreats, and speaks about opening up to a more shalomic imagination which then invites a Christ-like way of being faithfully present. You can reach him here.
• Edited & published by The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology 2006
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