Category Archives: Embodied Faith

Will our children have faith?

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Nelson Okanya

How can the church be a community that nourishes and nurtures the faith of our children and youth to live as God’s missional people in the world? Recently researchers concluded that there seems to be an “alternative faith” among American … Continue reading →

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Living Holiness: From Excarnational to Incarnational Faith, Part 3

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Nelson Okanya

Our Christian faith involves knowing God “in the biblical sense” as one of my former professors in seminary once said. We must once gain reclaim our embodied faith through formative practices such as worship, communal scripture reading, footwashing, regular communion, … Continue reading →

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Living Holiness: From Excarnational to Incarnational Faith, Part 2

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Nelson Okanya

One Sunday a few months ago our congregation collected clothes, shoes and food and made them available to our church community and the community at large. We also made available about 500 lbs. of food for those who needed food. … Continue reading →

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Living Holiness: From Excarnational to Incarnational Faith

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Nelson Okanya

[This is the first of a three-part series on embodied faith by the new president of Eastern Mennonite Missions, Nelson Okanya.] Part 1 “Christian ethics would be unintelligible if it did not presuppose the existence and recognizability of communities and … Continue reading →

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