What if you shut down your Sunday School?
Day Smith Prichartt writes about an alternative approach to religious education for children:
Day Smith Prichartt writes about an alternative approach to religious education for children:
Church growth is much like the weather–everyone talks about it, but no one ever does anything about it. Today, however, the Church of England released
Congratulations to the Very Rev. Justin Lindstrom, dean of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Oklahoma City for helping to leaven this story in The Oklahoman
From the Lambeth Palace Press Office: The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby, is delighted to announce the appointment of the Revd Dr
Katie Heaney talks of her “non-dating” dating memoir, “Never Have I Ever”, with Salon’s Anna North. Here’s the first question from the interview:
This is a course with a warning label: All who enter here, expect to be transformed. Episcopal bishop Michael Curry is an inspiring and enthusiastic reformer with a clear call to reinvigorate the Church. Many people have experienced Christ’s transforming power through Bishop Curry’s ministry.
The StarTibune carries the AP’s Michelle Faul’s story that gay men are being rounded up and tortured in Nigeria:
A question was whether women’s under-representation was the result of discrimination or whether women make affective and material calculations regarding the costliness of attachment to leadership aspirations?
…an emphasis on growth will be misguided if it adopts only models of homogeneity, because what we grow might not be a fully authentic expression of a Christian Church for a divided world. Ultimately, that simple equation – good vicar = growing church – needs to be nuanced if it is to have real value for us in facing the challenges ahead.