By Brent Laytham

• In Memoriam - Brian Logan by Brent Laytham (5/2/2013)
  ...n died Monday, April, 29, 2013 at his home in Eugene, Oregon. He was 52. Brian was raised in San Diego, CA graduating from Mission Bay High School in 1979. He attended Preston Road School of Preaching, Abilene Christian University, and Northwest Christian College. Brian married Suzie Cox January 29, 1994 in San Francisco, CA, and moved to Eugene, OR where Brian served as a pastor for Church of ...
• “The Kingdom Will Prevail” by Brent Laytham (3/1/2012)
  ...ay poor” — with the parables in the verses that follow.  The popular wisdom will not remain true; God is at work transforming creation, but the transformation is a slow one that starts with the tiniest of seeds and grows outward from there, from the grassroots, as it were… <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slowchurch/2012/03/01/the-kingdom-will-prevail-a-slow-church-related-sermon-on-mark-424-...
• One Big Happy Family by Brent Laytham (8/5/2011)
  ... braggadocio followed by “even more” hatred (37:8), conspiracy to kill, deception, and betrayal for 20 pieces of silver. This story of the family of Jacob—our ecclesial story—puts ugly on display. <!--more-->Wandering Arameans or settled herdsmen, our covenant family doesn’t seem to have what it takes to live together “peaceably” (37:4). Some clergy might want to draw solace from this grim portrai...
• Madmen, Destruction, and the Art of God's Patience by Brent Laytham (7/25/2011)
  ...ch are usually little more than vengeful sentiments in disguise.<!--more--> “A maximum sentence of 21 years? That hardly seems right!” What seldom tempts us in such <em>reactive</em> moments is the posture of lament. What may not even occur to us is the <em>proactive</em> and painstaking work of peace. Perhaps our greatest temptation at such moments is to accept the logic of redemption-through-vio...
• What it is, and is not, to be an EP Endorser by Brent Laytham (2/26/2011)
  ...th persons that I care about, even stalk my teenage children. But it isn't the kind of relationship that could be described as a school for subversive friendship. Why? Because it doesn't really ask much of me. Subversive friendships, on the other hand, can truly rock our world, since they are built on the chief cornerstone (Ephesians 2:20). So I thank God that we didn't choose to call associating ...
• Let’s Talk About Haiti by Brent Laytham (1/21/2010)
  ...ating in decades of ecological devastation. Things didn't first go wrong when the earth shook last week, but in the last few decades as deforestation made the soil slide down the mountains and as the best arable land was expropriated to service foreign debt. <span class="fullpost">For now the earthquake is the crisis of the moment, and we must pray and care with immediacy and focus. But Haiti need...
• Fasting Against a Divided Body by Brent Laytham (8/1/2008)
  ...painful that many of us who endorse The Ekklesia Project cannot come together as one body at the Eucharistic table of our Lord. Several years ago, we spent an entire Gathering exploring that pain.<!--more--> This year our Gathering explored another division that scars the body of Christ—race. Both visibly and invisibly, race and racism have divided us from sharing together at our Lord’s one tab...
• Better Than Borders and Barriers by Brent Laytham (8/1/2008)
  ...l is the most segregated hour in America. One of the most challenging questions was posed by Bryan Massingale, who asked us when in the last three years we had heard a sermon that condemned racial division or that affirmed God’s vision of a multi-racial church. When? Well, I hope you did during Epiphany.<!--more--> Epiphany is an annual invitation to read and hear the gospel that God shows up t...