This episode features Nikki Collins (National Coordinator, 1001 New Worshiping Communities) in conversation with Karen Rohrer (Associate Academic Dean, Princeton Theological Seminary) about Karen's work as co-chair of the Mission Development Resources Committee. If you're starting a new church within our movement, this is where some of the funding comes from.

What is that process like? How do staff reviewers and committee members determine what we are looking for and how we know when we find it? And is it true that this process has evolved along with the movement?

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The Rev. Dr. Bethany McKinney Fox is the perfect conversation partner. She's someone people like to be with, and she's thoughtful: both in the public sphere (through expertly hosted social media engagement), and the lectures she has given as a pastor and ethicist about the choices we make and what it means to be a neighbor.

In our conversation together, we talk about how sharing things with neighbors may just save us, and will certainly move us forward; the power of hyper locality; and moments in our lives recently when we could tell that something was ours to do.

Disability and the Way of Jesus

Bethany McKinney Fox on New Way (2019 episode)

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The Rev. Dr. Becca Ehrlich is a spiritual director, author, and is also known to many as the Christian minimalist. In our conversation, Becca chronicles the events that led her and her spouse to give up almost sixty percent of their possessions. Do they regret this newfound spaciousness? Do they run to the big box stores to fill the void? Is her wardrobe devoid of color? And other important questions. Becca tells all; including a meaningful story about the hardest things of all: to give up the baby items they chose for their infant son whom they lost at birth, a story she touches on about halfway through the episode.

Becca's Blog

Becca's Book

Minimalism: A Documentary

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