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M News–First Time in Michigan

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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/

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Holiness and Risk

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 [...]

Tomorrow and How to Get There – The Futuristic

Tomorrow. Face it with either fear or anticipation, it doesn’t matter which, it is coming regardless of our grasp of it. Fortunes have been made marketing knowledge about tomorrow whether that tomorrow is 24 hours away or 100 years distant.

Fortune tellers make the promise that that can allay our fears with their prognostication [...]

Communities of Knowing

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 [...]

Into the Beautiful Unknown (Cross-Posted)

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 [...]

Surf’s Up! – Adaptability

As every week begins, many of us look ahead to the next seven days and have a pretty solid expectation of what those days will hold for us. We head into Monday trying to get back into the grind. As Wednesday rolls by, we mark the middle of the week. We anticipate Friday as [...]

Awakening the More (More)

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 [...]

The Avatar Blues

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 [...]

Focus

What is our point? And by that question I mean to ask, where are we going? What are we moving towards? Is there a destination that we have clearly defined?

Have you ever reflected on your life and realized that at some point along your path you’ve forgotten what you set out to do? Maybe you [...]

Deliberation

Every one of us, at one point or another, have come to a place of reflection with the conclusion “I should have taken more time to make that decision.” Usually we arrive here because we realize in the present that while making the decisions that led to this place, we weren’t thinking of the future. [...]