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This Common Life: Seeking the Common Good Through Love of Neighbor
This Common Life brings together the Christian practice of neighbor love and a theologically rich imagination of the common good to cast a constructive vision of life together that cuts across divisions. This text is not a diagnosis of toxic polarization, violence, oppression, and marginalization (many have already done this important work), but a prescription—a proposal for how we might move forward in redemptive, Christ-like love by focusing on our common life. Aimed at pastors, lay leaders, community organizers, and churchgoers, this book looks to Scripture and the teachings of the church to make a compelling case for a distinct and constructive understanding of both the “common” and the “good” that can generate communities marked by love, belonging, justice, and mutual flourishing.
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Writing:
“A Study in Belonging: Particularity as a Gift in Acts 17,” in Awake, Emerging and Connected: Theologies of Justice from the Missing Generation (London: SCM Press, 2024).
"Bringing Religion to the Office" chapter contribution forthcoming in Theology, Religion, and The Office: Beauty in Ordinary Things (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2024)
“We Gather at the Table,” co-authored with Nicholas Tangen in Hungry for Hope: Letters to the Church from Young Adults (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2025).
“A Study in Belonging: Particularity as a Gift in Acts 17,” in Awake, Emerging and Connected: Theologies of Justice from the Missing Generation (London: SCM Press, 2024).
"Bringing Religion to the Office" chapter contribution forthcoming in Theology, Religion, and The Office: Beauty in Ordinary Things (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2024)
“We Gather at the Table,” co-authored with Nicholas Tangen in Hungry for Hope: Letters to the Church from Young Adults (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2025).
The Good Road Network (GRN) is an innovative community that seeks to offer a space for Christians across America to faithfully, critically, and constructively navigate today's complex issues of our religious and social life.
Drawn from the First Nations Bible Translation, which translates the “Kingdom of God” as the “Creator’s Good Road,” the “Good Road Network” provides a formative space for Christians to envision a more loving, hospitable, and generous faith practice in our world today. The Kingdom of God is deeply social; it is a visible cultural community embodying the moral virtues of the Christian life in the world. The GRN supports and connects Christians who want to live out this way of life well.
This learning laboratory includes experts and lay leaders in diverse fields including healthcare, law, business, theology, public policy, ethics, pastoral ministry, and social activism with the ambition to build bridges, seek justice, make peace, and educate the church. Participants range from advanced undergraduate students to post-doctoral fellows. All members have a demonstrated record of rich theological engagement, faithful and practical engagement, and innovative and compelling visions for Christian and public life.
The GRN is led by a core team of Common Life Fellows who lead topic-based cohorts for members of the GRN and help organize quarterly gatherings.
Drawn from the First Nations Bible Translation, which translates the “Kingdom of God” as the “Creator’s Good Road,” the “Good Road Network” provides a formative space for Christians to envision a more loving, hospitable, and generous faith practice in our world today. The Kingdom of God is deeply social; it is a visible cultural community embodying the moral virtues of the Christian life in the world. The GRN supports and connects Christians who want to live out this way of life well.
This learning laboratory includes experts and lay leaders in diverse fields including healthcare, law, business, theology, public policy, ethics, pastoral ministry, and social activism with the ambition to build bridges, seek justice, make peace, and educate the church. Participants range from advanced undergraduate students to post-doctoral fellows. All members have a demonstrated record of rich theological engagement, faithful and practical engagement, and innovative and compelling visions for Christian and public life.
The GRN is led by a core team of Common Life Fellows who lead topic-based cohorts for members of the GRN and help organize quarterly gatherings.
