Sari Rice says that the millennials who stay will change the church in fundamental ways, mainly because they don’t behave like members of the other generations.
St. Matthew’s Church used to meet in a big church building in Westerville, OH. Now they meet in pubs and a storefront and is growing in unexpected ways.
… a prayer for a church website, inspired by an actual church website that in the spring of 2015 still announced an event happening in 2011 on its homepage. Lord, have mercy.
There will always be an organized church of some form. So while our gatherings might shift and look different than they do today, Christians will always gather together to do more than we ever could on our own.
Therefore, SCCIT’s members recommend the dissolution of the Commission so that its members may be free to share their gifts and energy in immediate and local projects within existing Episcopal networks.
“… if the Internet is changing our heads, another question follows: What’s it doing to our hearts?” asks the Deseret News:
In his best-selling book “The Shallows,” Nicholas Carr asked what the Internet is doing to our brains. His conclusion, while controversial, is that digital life is reshaping not only attention spans, but the very neurons that control them, the mainframe of the brain. “For the past five centuries, the linear, literary mind has been at the center of art, science and […]
Kelvin Holdsworth notes that many in Church leadership who are uncomfortable with bloggers are very uncomfortable with social media, where anyone with a smart phone can comment on something the Church is doing in real time. He suggests that while social media may supplant some bloggers, the two forms work hand-in-hand for the good of the whole church.
What’s in Kelvin’s Head?
The injunction “all may, none must, some should” is the classic prescription for how Anglicans deal with confession. However, it […]
The Barna Group, a polling firm that concentrates on tracking changes in church life in a post-Christendom world, has released a new study on Millennials and their preferences on worship
James Carroll penned an op-ed for the NY Times on Sunday, in which he pondered the alternating consternation and adulation with which the new pope has been met.
He speculated that much of it has to do with the pope’s insistence on pointing the institutional church towards
The Pew Research Center’s Religion and Public Life project is out with a new report on religion and electronic media. Here are some of the key
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