By FaithX Senior Missional Consultant, Steve Matthews “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” Lao Tzu Earlier this week I had a...
Posts by Steve Matthews
What’s Working?
“It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism. In times such as these, it is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might...
“Seed Banks”
By Steve Matthews, Senior Missional Consultant, FaithX “Watch carefully the magic that occurs when you give a person enough comfort to just be...
“Discoverables”
Photo by Juan Rojas By Steve Matthews, FaithX Senior Missional Consultant FaithX exists to provide resources including cutting-edge data,...
“Bridging”
By Steve Matthews, Senior Missional Consultant for FaithX In August I attended a presentation offered by the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa and Iowa...
Holy Attention: Seeing your Neighborhood with New Eyes
What do you know about your neighbors? What about the neighbors around your church building? Is your knowledge based on your intuition, some good research (hopefully utilizing some of the excellent data available to you through FaithX)?
How Does your Garden Grow?
How Does your Garden Grow? Steve Matthews, FaithX Senior Associate Consultant My partner and I bought a house in Western North Carolina in April...
The Journey of Hope
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
J.R.R. Tolkein