Fred Peatross
Fred Peatross lives, works, romances his wife and exudes deep feelings of love, awe, and admiration for his Creator while living in the heart of Appalachia. For over two decades Fred has resided in Huntington, West Virginia where he has been a leader in the traditional church. He has been a deacon, a shepherd, and a pulpit minister. But his greatest love is
Missio Dei.
Long before thousands of missionaries poured into the former Soviet Union Fred, in a combined effort with a Christ follower from Alabama planted a church in Dneprodzerhinsk, Ukraine. Today Fred lives as a missionary to America daily praying behind the back of his friends as he journeys and explores life alongside them.
Missio Dei: In the Crisis of Christianity, reviewed in
New Wineskins]. He blogs at [
Abductive Columns].
A Conversation with the eBay Atheist
Fred Peatross
05/09/2008 - 
Fred: Just what do you believe in? How does this all fit into the ultimate truth about life—death?
Hemant: I believe in the goodness of people. We all want to survive and the best way for this to happen is to live peacefully with other people and help them (I've heard religious people criticize this because it seems to go against the idea of "survival of the fittest," but any research on the benefits of altruism can explain why this is good for us.)
A Conversation with Alan Hirsch
Fred Peatross
03/30/2008 - 
" ... an attractional church can work in a Christendom context, but in a missionary context it actually undermines our efforts to reach people meaningfully with the Gospel of Jesus. It is literally out-moded! A ‘sent people’ no matter how you configure it implies a going of sorts. And when combined with the other primary theological metaphor in the Bible of how God reaches the nations, namely the Incarnation, it clashes head-on with the primary expectation built into attractional forms of church. "
A Conversation with Scot McKnight
Fred Peatross
12/12/2007 - 
"The call of Jesus is to love others as ourselves, and whoever the others are who show up in our lives – and it begins at home and moves to our neighborhood and community – are to be loved. Many today are seeking for the poor and missing those around them who have needs."
Conversation with Tony Jones
Fred Peatross
11/02/2007 - 
"We're trying to recover the gospel from Constantinian and consumerist tendencies in modern, American Christianity. Emergent Village is little more than an open-source network based on friendship -- we call it a "growing, generative friendship" because we expect this friendship to generate many beautiful things for God's kingdom. Personally, I'm a little fuzzy on the supposed differences between 'emerging' and 'emergent.' Some want to make a big deal of the differences, but they're used interchangeably by all but the most inside insiders."
A Conversation With Edward Fudge
Fred Peatross
08/15/2007 - 
... Our tribe helped to polarize unity and restoration, then galvanized its brand of restoration as the basis and standard for any future unity. Even worse, this external and church-centered restoration often became the supposed basis for salvation within Churches of Christ. This unfortunate situation prompted me 25 years ago to write a gospel-based critique of our movement entitled “The Restoration Movement Fulfilled in Jesus Christ,” now available free online. ...
A Conversation with Dan Kimball
Fred Peatross
08/04/2007 - 
They Like Jesus but not the Church is for church leaders and for Christians interested in understanding some minds and hearts of those outside the church and their perceptions of Christians and the church. This book takes a look at patterns of what those outside the church, especially in their 20's and 30's are perceiving church and Christianity to be like , which unfortunately is neutral at best, but usually quite negative. Yet the irony is they are very open to Jesus and respect of what they know of Him. ...
Conversation with Will Samson
Fred Peatross
05/25/2007 - 
"The book asks what it means to be faithful to Christ while staying in a suburban context. Rather than suggesting people should move out of the ‘Burbs to live justly, we try to help suburban Christians understand their need to figure out what it means to live faithfully right where they are." . . .
Conversation with the SuperSkeptic
Fred Peatross
02/12/2007 - 
SuperSkeptic is a former Protestant who lost his faith in 1989 only to get it back (briefly) ten years later. Now he says it is slowly slipping away again. He makes this statement: Everything I do to try to strengthen my faith pushes it farther away.
SuperSkeptic has asked that he remains anonymous. His blog is the SuperSkeptic World of Doubt. . . .
Talking to a Man from the Future: A Conversation with Michael Frost
Fred Peatross
01/03/2007 - 
Michael Frost is the Founding Director of The Centre for Evangelism & Global Mission at Morling Theological College in Sydney. He is one of Australia's most widely recognized evangelists and conference speakers, having spoken at some of Australia's largest conventions and events as well as at conferences in the United States and parts of Asia and Africa.
A Conversation with Brian McLaren (2006)
Fred Peatross
12/18/2006 - 
" If our understanding of the gospel is primarily dualistic: focused on 'saving souls' for 'eternity,' apart from the body, society, the environment, culture, history, etc., then we'll have 'missions programs.' But if our understanding of mission is integral: flows from an understanding of the gospel of the kingdom, then everything we do is mission."
Conversation with Ron Martoia
Fred Peatross
12/01/2006 - 
"Jesus with regularity walked past immense need to manage well the rhythm of "with" time and "alone" time, or activity and quiet. Most of us in church leadership are pathological in our need to be busy so we can ignore the deeper more important issues of inner space cultivation. . . .
A Conversation with Sally Morgenthaler
Fred Peatross
11/20/2006 - 
Sally Morgenthaler catches up with New Wineskins again in this interview about lifelong worship through service and sharing: "At its core, our faith is all about conversation. God as Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer is essentially God expressed in community. And the divine dialogue expressed throughout Scripture is a model for what we are to be in God's presence and with each other. . . ."
Conversation with Rex Miller
Fred Peatross
11/11/2006 - 
"The four major communication eras include oral culture which we identify with an ancient worldview; print culture with our modern worldview; broadcast with postmodernism and the emerging interactive/digital culture with a new era I’ll labeled as convergent."
A Conversation with Larry Crabb
Fred Peatross
11/26/2002
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