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March 2016

March 07, 2016

Welcome To Post-Adulthood?

This recent Washington Post article highlights an idea foreign to the majority of us living...

March 19, 2015

Old Man, I Really, Really Am A Lot Like You

Last week the Tonight Show was in reruns, and one of the shows they replayed...

January 2015

January 07, 2015

Forced Out In The Name Of “Reaching Young Families”

***My friend A. was an old hippie who looked a little like Jerry Garcia (the...

November 2014

November 15, 2014

“Done” At Midlife

The conversation around the relationship between those at midlife and the local church clicked into...

October 2014

October 15, 2014

40+ And The Church: ISO Creative Thinking

I've written in this space (here, here and here) about the challenges some over age 40 have when...

September 2014

September 03, 2014

40+ And The Church / Listening To Millennials And Visa Versa

I've written a lot about the relationship between those at or beyond midlife with the...

August 2014

August 26, 2014

40+ And The Church / The Sermon Zone

At a social event last weekend, I ran into C., a woman I used to...

June 2014

June 04, 2014

40+ And The Church/Practicing In Community

"I wonder what the average age is of the group in this room." Author and...

May 2014

May 19, 2014

Midlife Discipleship: Show Me Your Endurance

What do those in the second half of their lives tell the big "C" Church...

April 2014

April 03, 2014

Why The Church Took a Pass on Boomers

“Even after several years, I’m still a guest here.” It wasn’t the first time I’d...

March 2014

March 25, 2014

40+ And The Church / Creating A Culture Of Maturity

In my earlier posts in this series, I queried pastors and church leaders about their...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Healing And The Favorite College Game ‘Guess The Major’

In 2007, I wrote a post (here) about what happened to me when I visited...

September 18, 2013

40+ And The Church / When Christian Ambition Fades To Gray

I was in a room with a bunch of young pastors-in-training, and commented to a...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

40+ And The Church / Beyond Recreation Therapy?

Since I started writing and speaking about midlifers' changing relationship with the local church, various...

August 05, 2013

40+ Case Study: Jeanette

Sarah Bessey, a gifted thirty-something writer, noted in her post last week at Christianity Today's...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

40+ And The Church / (Re-)Sowing What We’ve Reaped

A recent Christianity Today cover story profiling the perpetual adolescence of American Christianity asked "When...

June 2013

June 18, 2013

40+ And The Church / Regret

Though the surfacing of regret is certainly not limited to one particular age group, it...