At a time when church attendance is in decline and use of technology throughout everyday life is increasing, the Church of England is capitalizing on the virtual assistant trend by launching a new skill on Amazon Alexa.
The World Council of Churches conference on Mission and Evangelism has wrapped up a gathering in Arusha, Tanzania by issuing a call (below) to Christians around the world to take up Christ’s mission for themselves and to invite others into this world-transforming work.
Scott Gunn reminds us that the Great Commission isn’t optional and that the time for action is now
We don’t have to thump a Bible or get up on a soap box to do the work of evangelism in the world. All we have to do is share what we know of our experience of God from the heart.
As part of the Church’s Church Planting and Missional Development effort, Executive Council has awarded grants to ten new promising efforts
Listening well helps me learn a stranger’s personal language. I learn their joys, what they are stumped by, what moves them. The stories are magnificent; they are jewels. Christ is right there in the middle of them.
Bishop Philip North, Bishop of Burnley, says that that the church has forgotten the poor and working class.
So think about being a fisher of people. In your words or in your actions how do you proclaim your relationship with the God who is love? How do you cast out a net into the deep waters of the Soul?
The Most Rev. Michael Curry visited the Diocese of Utah this weekend for its Diocesan Convention and celebration of 150 years of service.
Again and again we find ourselves as subjects addressing God as an object, a separate being – one whom we seek, appeal to, and praise. We ask this divine being to respond, to have mercy, to grant, to forgive, to act, just as we would ask another person to do the same. “We” speak to a God who is not “us,” but something else, whether we think of God as the one in whom we live and move and have our being, or as something impossibly far away. In other words, we think dualistically.