Archive for the 'My Published Articles' Category
New Article: Community and the Cubicle
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson January 4th, 2009 on Creation ProjectWhat do cubicles, tobacco farming, and the church have in common?
By 2000, forty million American white-collar employees were using the cubicle. What began as a customizable work environment eventually turned into an urban dungeon. Cutting us off from contact with the real world, the cubicle is scorned for suffocating productivity and community. Attempts to […]
Those from Austin City Life who are looking for my article related to Sunday’s message, go here for “v.Culture (how to engage culture)“
Check it out here.
I have updated my Books and Articles links to reflect current reading and publications. Categories for articles include: Culture, Family, Discipleship, & Church Planting. I am also working on developing a personal reading plan that deliberately includes diverse readings each month. This will give greater focus to my reading. If you have any suggestions, feel […]
Missional Discipleship: Reinterpreting the Great Commission (new article)
Closed Published by jdodson February 12th, 2008 on Creation ProjectBoundless has published my new article, “Missional Discipleship: Reinterpreting the Great Commissions.” This is a timely publication with my recent post on the Manga Bible, an example of what Andrew Walls’s calls distinctive discipleship. From the conclusion:
We’re called not to mere soul-winning, but to distinctive discipleship: heralding a worldly gospel of a fleshly Christ who […]
New Article: How Should We Then Work?
Closed Published by jdodson December 6th, 2007 on Creation ProjectBoundless is running one of my new articles on a redemptive approach to work entitled “How Should We Then Work?“
An excerpt:
In many respects, work is the engine of civilization. Without work, societies would not perpetuate. Furthermore, if as Schaeffer argues, the rise and decline of civilization is intimately intertwined with the strength and weakness of […]
The Burnside Writer’s Collective is “an online magazine presenting an alternative to franchise faith.” A Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz) creation, BWC offers articles on “issues relating to social justice, novels relating to humanity, music expressing reality and books strengthening our understanding of God’s heart for the world, for equality and whole morality.”
Today they published […]
This is an excerpt of a forthcoming article for Boundless, which should run pretty soon.
In washing windows in the towns of East Texas, managing an Italian café in a quaint neighborhood of metropolitan Minneapolis, working security for a top advertising firm in Boston (no, I didn’t have to wear a goofy uniform or ‘get’ to […]
You Have What It Takes?: A follow up to “Imagine Your Children”
Closed Published by jdodson July 28th, 2007 on Creation ProjectA reader has expressed concern over my interpretation of Eldredge’s You Have What It Takes, expressed in my recent article “Imagine Your Children.” Though my article is primarily focused on redemptively engaging the fears and frustration of parenting, not in debating or critiquing Eldredge, below I have offered a clearer interpretation of what I consider […]
Imagine Your Children: New Article Release
Closed Published by jdodson July 26th, 2007 on Creation ProjectHere is Ted Slater’s intro to my new article “Imagine Your Children” from Boundless:
If you’re the typical Boundless reader, you’re single and don’t have kids. The thing is, you likely some day will have children of your own, little ones who’ll lovingly call you mommy or daddy (or “papa,” as in my case). And just […]