New Movie has Episcopal roots
This week, thousands of young people swarmed movie theaters in New York, Miami, Cleveland, Nashville and Dallas to attend a sneak preview of the soon-to-be
This week, thousands of young people swarmed movie theaters in New York, Miami, Cleveland, Nashville and Dallas to attend a sneak preview of the soon-to-be
Efrem Smith poses a radical idea: Instead of abandoning the city or giving over the urban church scene to a variety of small established- and store-front congregations that don’t make a dent in their communities, how about planting churches among the urban poor?
… at one point in the procession, as we paused for prayer, I overheard one onlooker, observing us at prayer, say to his friend in some amazement: “You know, I think these people are serious!”
What might happen if your church never gets another member. Thoughts from Derek Penwell at
Tuck this terrific idea into your evangelism team’s futures file. The Rev. Peter Faass, rector of Christ Church in Shaker Heights, Ohio, wrote this in
Two seminarians took compline to the streets on Monday night during Lent in Berkeley. Maggie Foster and Spencer Hatcher, both first-year students at Church Divinity
by Derek Olsen My daughters, 10 and 8, are approaching the end of their first year at a Christian school. It’s been a bit of
Believing that the ways of academic specilization and business-style management is leaving the church bereft, the Dean and faculty of General Seminary are embarking on an experiment to integrate theological education with the daily, lived experience of the church. They are calling this exploration “The Way of Wisdom.”
by Ann Fontaine In the course of my interim ministry and training work I have been observing churches and their lives. I am coming to
This past week, the Acts 8 Movement threw a challenge into the Episcopal blogosphere: explain why you are an Episcopalian in 250 words or less,