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Tag: Church growth

Keeping Lent

February 18, 2014 No Comments

Ash Wednesday and Lent are coming in 2 weeks. What are your plans this year? 40 ways to keep a joyful, thankful, holy Lent: Lent

10 possible reasons why your church is not growing

February 4, 2014 1 Comment

“Bushwick Abbey”

January 29, 2014 No Comments

First off, it’s not a TV series… Local Brooklyn venue Radio Bushwick features live music, a bar, a internet net radio station, and now…”Bushwick Abbey“…an

Are Liberals Too “Special” to Go to Church?

January 19, 2014 1 Comment

According to Chadley Stern and researchers from New York University in November’s issue of Psychological Science, the “desire to feel unique can undermine consensus, cohesion,

Church of England releases long-awaited church growth study

January 16, 2014 No Comments

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

Good vicar=growing church – maybe not

January 14, 2014 No Comments

…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.

Paradigm Shift

January 13, 2014 1 Comment

The pressing question of how we, in the church, confront the changing contexts of the 21st century continues to spark debate. Should we batten the