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Suburban Spirituality: Guidance from a Liberation Theology Hermeneutic

by Rhett Smith on June 2, 2009

[image source] I’m going to begin this post by saying, I’m not an expert in liberation theology.  I’ve been drawn to it ever since I lived and served in Guatemala for 3 months in 2001, and I am continually learning from it as I have spent time studying it on various trips to Brazil and [...]

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Suburban Spirituality: Don’t Knock the Suburbs

by Rhett Smith on May 27, 2009

I’ve been reading the blogs of Joe Thorn and Steve McCoy for several years now…but in the midst of so many blogs, I just never kept up with all that they have going on. So just this week John Dyer pointed me toward their collaborative site subtext. And yeah, I know, they launched it almost [...]

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Suburban Spirituality: Church Shopping

by Rhett Smith on May 22, 2009

[image from wearitdotcom] When someone says it better than I can, then my philosophy is…let them say it. So the following is a long quote from the article Suburban Spirituality: The land of SUV’s and soccer leagues tends to weather the soul in peculiar ways, but it doesn’t have to. For all of its foibles—which [...]

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Suburban Spirituality: What Is Your Mission?

by Rhett Smith on May 20, 2009

[image by e453753] Over the last couple of posts I have looked at the primacy of finances and family as to reasons why people often move to the suburbs. Those are two of the reasons we consider very important as well. And let me remind my readers that suburban life is not the only place [...]

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Suburban Spirituality: Church Before Family

by Rhett Smith on May 18, 2009

[image by Pink Sherbert] I mentioned earlier last week that my wife and I are thinking through where we want to move in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex when our lease is up in August.  And I stated that as we contemplate this move all sorts of questions have arisen in our mind (stewardship, finances, mission, [...]

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Suburban Spirituality: Being a Good Steward of Your Finances

by Rhett Smith on May 14, 2009

After college and their roaring 20s, many Americans find themselves in a subdivision with a lawn and a mortgage and a couple kids. Hip twentysomethings may mock the suburbs and its bourgeois values, but when their first child arrives the nesting instinct sets in. A neighbor and her husband lived on the north side of [...]

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