Mike is an active writer of short pieces, poetry, long-form essays, and book manuscripts. Contact him at mike@mikestavlund.com with questions, comments, or speaking requests.
Good writing, with a strong point and with life oozing out.
Mike is an active writer of short pieces, poetry, long-form essays, and book manuscripts. Contact him at mike@mikestavlund.com with questions, comments, or speaking requests.
Contributed an essay to this compilation edited by Jake Bouma, a great thinker, gifted church leader, and lymphoma survivor.
Contributed a chapter to a great book edited by Jonathan Brink, full of compelling stories of loving like Jesus: loving God, loving ourselves, loving our neighbor, and loving our enemies .
Guest blogged at TheHardestQuestion.org, a Sparkhouse/Augsburg-Fortress resource for preachers that looks for the most difficult questions which come out of the weekly Lectionary texts.
Two poems published in the newest issue of Generate Magazine, a high-design quarterly curating the Emergence Christian movement.
A chapter from Force of Will was published in an especially strong issue of Conspire!, a journal created for Neo-Monastic and church communities.
A piece responding to a new book by Doug Pagitt, and reflecting on Mike's own experience at Common Table.
Spend too much time with your tools, and they'll start talking to you.
People love to celebrate the Bible as 'the living word', but we sing a different tune when it stands up and punches us in the gut.
For their 10 year anniversary, Cutting Edge published a retrospective book with some of their favorite articles.
Inspired by The Dukes of Hazzard, Mike did some pining for the theological frontier.
A piece in Cutting Edge Magazine featuring the work of Barbara Brown Taylor.