Leave behind the status quo.
Spiritual formation
for the unconventional Jesus-apprentice.
I am a writer, teacher and creative with a Masters of Divinity and a background in pastoral and creative arts ministry.
But I left institutional ministry to save my soul.
Spiritual formation means being a Jesus-apprentice—someone who mimics a master rather than mastering religious content. Apprenticeship is the way into our unique personalities, not an erasure of our unique wills.
My teaching covers a range of disciplines yet tends to aggregate around spiritual formation, with a few recurring themes:
1. Discernment Through Range
2. Relationally Attuned Connection
3. The Wholeness Ministry of Jesus
Find My Writing:
You can find my writing in two places: Here under Articles, and on my Instagram page where I post nearly daily.
“People call me wild. Not really though, I’m not. I guess I’ve never been normal, not what you call Establishment.”
Unconventional is:
range vs. restrictive expertise
attunement vs. relational carelessness
discernment vs. shallow conformity
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DEPTH THROUGH BREADTH
Creative thinking is pursuing what David Epstein calls “range;” or “habits of mind that allows us to dance across disciplines.” In other words, interdisciplinary depth through breadth. Here are my core creative disciplines:
Jesus-apprentice
Multi-range creative
Podcast host
Teacher
Writer
JIM ROBBINS
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