Category: review

  • Top 5 Posts of March

    For the month of March, the Missional Communities Practices Series continues to be the most read series on the blog.  Apparently practical is good! As for content posted in March: Making Disciples is the Job Building a Staff Team The Basic Process of Hiring Understanding the Position Assessing Candidates – Calling If there are topics…

  • A New Year, A New Direction

    Although we’re already almost a month into the new year, I’m just now getting my ducks around the blogosphere.  Looking back, I focused a great deal of time and attention on the practical aspects of missional communities.   In this coming year, I’m going to continue writing content in the theological, philosophical and practical world…

  • Top 5 Posts for July

    For the month of July, the Missional Communities Practices Series continued to be the most read posts.  As for content posted in July: Questions to Answer in Transition A Theological Reason for Missional Community What Next for a New Missional Community? Establishing Healthy Rhythms in a New Missional Community The First Four Weeks of a…

  • Top 5 Posts for June

    For the month of June, these are the most visited posts here: MC Practice – Life Transformation Groups Different Kinds of Gatherings MC Practice – Third Place MC Practice – The Family Meal A Theological Reason for Missional Community My particular favorite was the article I wrote for The Gospel Coalition called “What Makes a…

  • Top 5 Posts for May

    For the month of May, these are the most visited posts here: Gospel, Community, Mission and Summer Missional Community Practices – Life Transformation Groups Missional Community vs. Small Group Missional Community vs. Bible Study Missional Community Practices – Third Place My particular favorite for this last month was The Gospel and Coaching. Let me know…

  • Top 5 Posts for April

    For the month of April, these are the most visited posts here: Fitting the Practices of Missional Community Together Missional Community Practices – Life Transformation Groups Missional Community Practices – The Family Meal Individualism and Community Missional Community Practices – Third Place My particular favorite for this last month was actually the series on the…

  • Upcoming Series and New Ideas

    It’s been a joy to unpack some of the nuts and bolts of missional communities, and I’ve loved the feedback I’ve received from many of you. I’ve compiled the different series together on my resources page here: https://toddengstrom.com/resources In the coming months, I’ll be working through: Coaching Missional Communities Assessing Missional Communities Missional Community Core…

  • Top 5 Posts for March

    For the month of March, these are the most visited posts here: A Philosophical Reason for Missional Communities A Theological Reason for Missional Communities What is a Missional Community? – Other Definitions What is a Missional Community? – Definition A Pragmatic Reason for Missional Communities My favorite to write was Consumerism and Community. Let me…

  • 2009 Top Posts – Ethereal Thought Train

    I’ve pretty much let Ethereal Thought Train go stale in the last two months, but I figured to close out 2009 I’d throw out your favorite posts of the year.  Without further adieu, here they are: The 5 Big Issues in Campus Ministry | Missiology 1 Summary of College Ministry | Gentrified Discipleship and Ministry…

  • Ethereal Thought Train Summer Review

    As summer winds down, I figured I’d do some highlighting of the blog over the past few months.  In no particular order, here are some of my favorites and yours: The 5 Big Issues in Campus Ministry | Innovation – This post contains most of my responses to Steve Lutz’s post on the 5 Big…

  • Ethereal Thought Train Review

    Here’s a review of some of my favorite and your favorite posts from the last month: The highest hit rate came from Coffee Kills.  This post had absolutely no content or thought, which tells me that by and large most people could care less about what I have to say…maybe I need to rethink this…