Featured In
A curated collection of conversations, articles, and podcasts featuring Tim Soerens and The Parish Collective, exploring themes of place, presence, and everyday faith.
Podcasts
A Bigger Table Podcast
A conversation on A Bigger Table Podcast featuring Tim Soerens, author of Everywhere You Look and co-founder of The Parish Collective, exploring a more relational and grounded vision of church life. If you're longing for a way of being the Church rooted in everyday community and belonging, this episode offers a hopeful and practical starting point.
Listen: Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
and Amazon Music
Everywhere You Look: A Conversation with Tim Soerens
A conversation featuring Tim Soerens on The Ministry Collaborative Podcast, centered on his book Everywhere You Look and the vision of faith lived out in ordinary, local contexts. The episode invites listeners to recognize everyday neighborhoods and relationships as meaningful spaces for a more rooted and present expression of church.
Listen: Available on Amazon Music, Spotify
Spiritual Formation Everywhere You Look with Tim Soerens
A conversation on Igniting Imagination Podcast featuring Tim Soerens, reflecting on what it means for the church to be faithfully present in everyday life. Drawing from Everywhere You Look, the discussion explores how spiritual formation takes shape in ordinary rhythms, inviting listeners to notice and join in God’s work within their neighborhoods and daily routines.
Listen: Available on Spotify
Christ & Cascadia |Tim Soerens
A conversation on Transforming Engagement: The Podcast featuring Tim Soerens, exploring place-based ministry and the vision of “holistic neighborhood flourishing.” The episode reflects on how the church can participate in the common good by becoming faithfully present in local communities, and how Cascadia’s cultural and ecological context shapes new expressions of ministry and renewal.
Listen: Available on Apple Podcasts
Reconnecting Churches with
Their Neighborhoods
A conversation on A Bigger Table Podcast featuring Tim Soerens, author of Everywhere You Look and co-founder of The Parish Collective, exploring a more relational and grounded vision of church life. If you're longing for a way of being the Church rooted in everyday community and belonging, this episode offers a hopeful and practical starting point.
Listen: Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music
This Should Not Be Kept a Secret: More with Tim Soerens
A follow-up conversation featuring Tim Soerens on The Ministry Collaborative Podcast, reflecting on God’s work of renewal and restoration, the importance of embedded ministry, and the practice of faithful presence in local neighborhoods. The discussion highlights how sustained proximity to community life shapes both the church’s witness and the flourishing of place.
Listen: Available on Spotify
Everywhere You Look:
A Conversation with Tim Soerens
A conversation on At the Table Podcast featuring Tim Soerens, centered on presence, place, and rediscovering the church in everyday life. The discussion reflects on how faith is practiced through ordinary rhythms and relationships, inviting a more grounded and embodied understanding of what it means to be the church in local contexts.
Listen: Available on Buzzsprout, Apple Podcast, Amazon Music, and Spotify
What is the Church?
A conversation on Unhurried Living Podcast featuring Tim Soerens, exploring the purpose of the church and how new, neighborhood-based expressions of faith are emerging in today’s context. The episode reflects on a slower, more attentive way of being present to God, others, and place, and how that shapes the church’s life in everyday communities.
Listen: Available on Unhurried Living Podcast
Episode 11 with Marlena Graves and Tim Soerens
A conversation on The Englewood Review of Books Podcast featuring Tim Soerens and Marlena Graves, reflecting on counter-cultural reading practices, listening to voices on the margins, and the connection between books, faith, and everyday life. The episode also includes a book giveaway as part of the discussion, highlighting the shared life of learning and community formation
Listen: Available on Spotify
Episode 2: Western USA - Clarence Presley, Tim Soerens
A conversation on Glocal Mission Podcast featuring Tim Soerens, exploring the church’s role in both local and global mission. The episode highlights parish ministry, micro-churches, and holistic networks of mission-shaped community life, with a focus on how these expressions are taking shape in the Western United States.
Listen: Available on Global Mission Podcast, Apple Podcast, and Spotify
Articles & Writing
Writings by Tim Soerens
A collection of writings by Tim Soerens on neighborhood-based faith, community life, and the role of the church in everyday contexts. These articles explore how faith is formed and expressed through local presence and relational engagement.
Finding the Church On the Ground — Medium (Paul Sparks)
Paul Sparks reflects on a growing, often unseen movement of grassroots faith communities rediscovering church as something rooted in place. Drawing from Parish Collective’s work, he highlights how neighborhoods already hold emerging networks of relational, place-based communities that live out faith on the ground rather than above or apart from local life.
Parish Collective – The Work of the People
A feature page on The Work of the People profiling Parish Collective’s approach to neighborhood-rooted church, highlighting short films and conversations about place-based ministry and parish renewal.
Parish Portrait: Mt Scott‑Arleta, Portland, OR with B.D. Dormaier — Abundant Community
A story on AbundantCommunityfeaturing Parish Collective’s Parish Portrait in the Mt Scott‑Arleta neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Focuses on how small material and relational efforts (plants, mural, reducing pavement) can build neighborhood life and community beyond traditional ministry models.
Does God Care How Wide a Road Is? — Strong Towns
An article on Strong Towns that reflects on community‑building, the built environment, and faith. The author describes how Parish Collective was encountered while exploring neighborhood work and how the parish movement intersects with questions about how towns are designed, social bonds, and human flourishing
Where You Are Is Where God Is Working – CAC We Conspire
An article in the We Conspire series from the Center for Action and Contemplation featuring Tim Soerens and the Parish Collective. It explores how embodied presence in neighborhoods helps churches rediscover their purpose, emphasizing that healing and transformation often begin in the places people already live.
Booknotes: The New Parish — Justin Gravitt
A reflective set of book notes by Justin Gravitton The New Parish, highlighting key themes around parish-based ministry, neighborhood presence, and the church’s call to be rooted in local community life.
How Engaged is Your Church in Your Neighborhood? — Thriving Congregations
Features Jonathan Brooks (Parish Collective Board Chair) discussing tools that help churches reflect on and deepen their engagement with their neighborhoods. The piece highlights practical ways congregations can move toward more place-based, relational forms of ministry.
Tim Soerens in Comment Magazine
Essays by Tim Soerens featured in Comment Magazine, exploring theology, economics, and cultural renewal through the lens of local community life and embodied faith practices.
More Insights from My Parish Collective Friends — Godspacelight
A reflective post sharing insights from conversations connected to Parish Collective, highlighting themes of place, neighborhood life, and creative community practice.
Books by Tim Soerens
Tim Soerens has contributed to key works exploring a neighborhood-based vision of church, including Everywhere You Look: Discovering the Church Right Where You Are and The New Parish (co-authored). These works invite readers to rediscover faith as something rooted in everyday life, emphasizing local presence, shared community, and the transformation of neighborhoods through relational engagement.
Parish Collective Blog — Official Website
A collection of blog posts from Parish Collective exploring neighborhood-based faith, community life, and stories from practitioners living out parish-based ministry in local contexts.
Talks & Conversations
Everywhere You Look, a Conversation with Tim Soerens
In this conversation, Markus Watson speaks with Tim Soerens about reimagining the church as a faithful presence in everyday neighborhood life. Tim reflects on moving from large-church models toward place-based, embodied community, and explores ideas like “minimum viable presence” and simple experiments in local engagement.
Spiritual Formation Everywhere You Look (S7: EP1)
Hosted by Lisa Greenwood and produced by Wesleyan Impact Partners, this conversation features Tim Soerens discussing how spiritual formation happens in everyday life and how the church can live faithfully in neighborhoods and daily rhythms. It highlights the church as both gathered and scattered, rooted in ordinary life and place.