I was recently approached with a request to submit an article in Arseh Sevom's new on-line magazine. Although I am not well-versed in political affairs or civil rights issues -- and especially not in the area of Iranian society -- I was honored to be asked for a submission. And when I was told that the topic was to be "Networks and Networking," my thoughts eventually drifted towards an examination of the tension that many Christians experience between the "Gather-and Celebrate" dynamic of ministry (an internal form of networking) and the "Scatter-and-Serve" dynamic of ministry (an external form of networking). This magazine is, of course, not a Christian publication (if anything, the audience would be primarily secular and/or cuturally-Muslim) -- so it was an interesting challenge to write about these Christian networking issues for a relatively uninitiated audience; but I feel like both I and the editors at Arseh Sevom were generally pleased with how things worked out.

The result is an article, just published today, entitled "Killing the Church by Networking." If you get the chance to read it, I'd love to hear your feedback.