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July 2014

July 30, 2014

Preserving Churches in Canada

In contrast to the Solomon temple replica in Brazil, the churches of Canada are being...

July 14, 2014

Church Attendance Decline: The Major Reason

Thom Rainer: July 1, 2014 | by Thom Rainer Few people will argue that church attendance...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Prayers of [not for] the People

When a church is led by someone praying, often called the intercessor, the prayers are...

June 12, 2014

We Are Wired To Be Social (RJS)

Many years ago I was with my then three-year-old daughter at a playground. We were...

June 02, 2014

Churches that Inhale and Exhale

When a MacDonald's and its patented fast-food approach sought to open up in a new...

May 2014

May 03, 2014

The Future of America

Source Who has a similar graph for the "changing face of churches in America"?

April 2014

April 25, 2014

The Gospel and the Nones

Here is a fact: the median church size in America is now at 108 (down...

April 21, 2014

The Rise of the Nones

If you listen to some, the "Nones" are changing the landscape of American religion, but...

April 14, 2014

Healy’s Empirical Criticism of Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas, one of the most influential Christian intellectuals in the world and a powerful...

April 07, 2014

The Church: What is or What could be?

Do you love the church for what it could be or what it is? If...

April 02, 2014

Church and Our Projections (Josh Graves)

Josh Graves is the Preaching Minster at the Otter Creek Church in Nashville. We are...

March 2014

March 20, 2014

Urban Church Plantations (Christena Cleveland)

This post by Christena Cleveland, author of the wonderful book Disunity in Christ, stunningly takes...

March 19, 2014

Let’s Talk about It: John Mark Comer and the Multi-Site Church

John Mark Comer, whose new book just landed on my desk (Loveology) and I'm more...

March 18, 2014

Peter Standford’s Recommendations: What the Church of England Needs

Source Having had a ringside seat at the events of the past two decades, and...

March 14, 2014

Good News about the Church!

Geoff Holsclaw, my colleague at Northern and friend, has a post on good news about...

March 12, 2014

Historic Church Institutions Selling Property

Source BOSTON – The American Unitarian Association, peopled and powered by this city’s Brahmin elite, announced...

March 10, 2014

Touchy Spot: Evangelicals and the Church

One of the more common observations among the high church sorts (Catholics, Anglicans, Orthodox, Lutherans)...

March 06, 2014

Competition among Churches

There are at least two signs of competition among churches, or should I say among...

March 05, 2014

The Time of Our Lives (by Jonathan Storment)

The Time of Our Lives I come from a Free Church tradition, for those of...

March 01, 2014

The Other Side of the Donald Miller Post: Church PTSD

This post is by a friend, and it gets to the heart of the problem...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

The Church I can’t Choose

This post is by Sean Palmer. "You have to be $^$*%^*^* kidding me," were the...

February 26, 2014

Anti-Institutional Church?

So, what does it mean when someone says they are "anti Institutional church"? Frankly, I...

February 25, 2014

Small Church Pastors and Bullying

Source: Karl Vaters There are some bullies in church leadership. No, not all of them....

February 17, 2014

The Church as Sacrament, another young pastor responds

Josh Graves (far right, with Brandon Scott Thomas and Josh Ross) is the teaching minister...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

Working toward Intergenerational Relations (by Jonathan Storment)

Last week I introduced a problem that most churches were already aware of: we can’t...

January 06, 2014

Are Liberals “Elites”?

One way of telling the story of American Protestant liberalism to fashion liberals as elites...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

The Church’s Biggest Problem?

People. We all know it. So the biggest challenge for church people and ministry is...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

Calvin vs. Wesley on the Church

"The root of ignorance," Don Thorsen says, "is 'ignoring,' and too many Christians intentionally ignore...

October 23, 2013

GAFCON News

From the GAFCON conference in Nairobi: Link to GAFCON itself. After celebrating the East African...

October 15, 2013

12 Reasons (RJS)

The following was making its way around Facebook recently. It is not new, however. There...