Allelon Blogs

The Roxburgh Journal is a biweekly online column providing commentary and perspective on the global missional church movement. Each Journal entry is based around themes discussed in the most recent episode of the Allelon Netcast Roxburgh Journal. These netcasts are hosted by Dr. Alan Roxburgh and explore specific themes and issues informing the missional church conversation. The column is designed to give voice to a variety of thinkers, practitioners and emerging leaders in contexts around the world by exploring the experiences of these leaders along with the theological and socio-cultural themes at work in the missional conversation. Both the Journal and Allelon Netcast recommend books and online material for readers further exploration and community discussion. The Comments section at the end of each Journal entry encourages further discussion — Alan's latest blog entry is .

Mark Priddy: Welcome to the Moving into the Neighborhood Blog. I am excited about the launch of this new blog. In many ways it will also serve as a collaborative blog. You will hear from Allelon team members, and other friends from around North America. I invite you to join us in this conversation. What are some of your reflections? What does it mean for us to be the hands and feet of Jesus in our local neighborhoods? Who do you know that is creatively engaging their local context (urban, suburban, rural) and seeing missional life emerge? Begin with my latest blog entry, "When Missional is Not Helpful".

Allelon's Missional Journey blog is a team blog focusing on mission-shaped leadership, re-connecting and engaging the "worlds" in which we live, on stories of engaging and listening to our context(s) and on the gospel and our modern Western culture as well as on various Allelon initiatives. We are pleased to have gathered a notable group of contributors to the blog, including Jonny Baker, Lydia Bean, Ryan Bell, Clark Cowden, Robin Dugall, John Franke, Paul Fromont, Pernell Goodyear, Len Hjalmarson, Andrew Jones, John McLaverty, Andrew Menzies, Bill Rose-Heim, Dan Steigerwald, Jannie Swart, and Frederick Marais. Recent entries in The Missional Journey include: