Evangelism – Page 26 – Episcopal Cafe

What about Generation X?

October 9, 2007 7 Comments

The more I see things with top-down architectures being applied to us youngish people, the more I realize it doesn’t work. I’ve seen great ideas committee-ed to death all because people older and wiser than me must control every outcome of every plan of every initiative. And the more input I got from friends of mine, the more I realized: Your invitation to me to participate doesn’t mean much if you don’t let my input—and leadership—count.

Halo as bait

October 8, 2007 3 Comments

Instead of a video game that shoots up a church, some evangelical churches are using a violent first person shooter video game in attempt to

How big is too big?
How small too small?

September 24, 2007 1 Comment

Some of the biggest mega churches today realize the principle of “artisanal production.” They arrange members in smaller cell groups of study and accountability. These churches are successful both because some larger structure and larger set of resources has enabled them, but also because they remember the uniqueness of small communities of diverse faith.

Mormons exposed. Literally

September 15, 2007 No Comments

A group of young Mormons, out to counter their church’s stodgy image have hit upon the idea of a beefcake calendar. As they explain it: The 2008 Men on a Mission calendar features twelve handsome returned Mormon missionaries from across the United States who, for the first time ever, have dared to pose bare-chested in a steamy national calendar.

The Gospel of James

September 14, 2007 5 Comments

As a person of faith, I can’t help but wonder what it is about James Taylor–this gawky, bald, 60 year-old–that draws 8,000 busy middle-aged Mainers to sit on folding chairs in a dusty ice hockey rink/monster truck arena…and to be able to hold that attraction for 40 years. As someone who thinks a lot about marketing the Church, I can’t help but wonder what we’re doing wrong.

No more Homecomings

September 11, 2007 5 Comments

How can a church invite people to homecoming who have never been in the building in the first place? How can anyone understand finding a home in God if they have no spiritual language to express their longings? From the point of view of twenty-first century post-Christian people, the “Homecoming Sunday” banner may as well read “Members Only Club.”

My mother, the evangelist

August 27, 2007 2 Comments

My mother was very proud of the people she “got” into the Episcopal church. As her own death neared, she would often run them off on her fingers, her friends, my friends, my sister’s friends, all the people she had managed to get firmly planted in some local parish. Jack and Jodie, Marcia and Chuck, Ken and Sally, Susan, Patty, Merrie…

St. Arbucks – a “third place”

August 23, 2007 No Comments

A “third place” is a safe place between home and work, or home and school. Think soda fountain, barbershop, the pub, even church. Today Starbucks

i don’t pay, i get paid

August 22, 2007 10 Comments

The Church by the Glades has been in the news lately. First, a few days ago it was running near the top of the Squidoo’s

Archbishop debates religion in bar

August 20, 2007 2 Comments

Dr Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales conducted a debate in a bar on the subject of Is Religion Bad? in front of around 50 people, wearing his clergy collar and a sports jacket. A mixture of believers, atheists and drinkers from the bar downstairs combined to create a lively debate.

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