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Jump in. The water’s great.

HUMAN EVENT.
First time ever in Michigan!
October 13-14.
Enroll before Aug 15 and enjoy a summer discount.
Join Neil Cole (Organic Church)
Alex McManus (M Network)
and others for conversation on mission in the 21st century.
http://bit.ly/bV33G8

CULTURE PUB TRAINING.
October 15
Troy, Michigan.
Enroll here: http://theimn.com/culture-pubs/

7 DAY IMMERSION.
October 11-17
Troy, Michigan
http://theimn.com/the-mentoring-immersion/

What [...]

A few hours after touching down back in Scotland from The International Mentoring Network’s Immersion experience in Orlando, I found myself in a conversation about a Methodist Church initiative called Holiness and Risk.

Is it okay if I tell you a little about this? It’s a really intriguing kind of thing that can emerge [...]

In his book, The Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy tells the fictional story of a train that hurried through the countryside. The commuters on board saw the passing scenery as little more than a two-dimensional background rolling past their windows.

One day, though, the train breaks down and the commuters have to disembark by a [...]

Since Alex is publishing this blog post with the IMN newsletter, I thought it ought to have a link from the IMN as well. Enjoy. -Your friendly neighborhood editor-of-doom.

Sometimes I’m asked, What does “M” stand for? I usually answer, “Exactly.” The question is understandable. I use M a lot.

My website is theimn.
My social network [...]

In the first part of this article I explored something of what makes us the amazing people we are; how, when awakened, we become “forces of nature.” The bigger question for this column is: How can an awakened person live in an inherited or denominational church?

A LONG WAY TO GO AND THE F WORD
I [...]

By now most of you have seen James Cameron’s blockbuster movie, AVATAR.
The night I saw it I knew this movie would strike a chord with large audiences worldwide. I tweeted that anyone who saw the movie was going to want to live on Pandora, the home planet of the 10-foot tall, blue skinned Na´vi.

The Na´vi [...]

Thinking about the “future of  mission” (or of anything for that matter) requires imagination.

A couple of decades ago I began to collect ideas and images of the future. One of several descriptors I used to paint portraits of the future was this: