From the Huffington Post: The city of Rochester, New York will kick off a program on Saturday aimed at improving relations between community members and
When the conversation turns to “the decline of the church,” especially among young adults, we tend to focus on program, technique and demography. While we tinker, we do not face the truth that many people–not just young adults– are just “one Sunday brunch away from never returning.”
Over at Medium, Dexter Thomas offers his Christological reflection on Michael Brown’s shooting:
Does your church offer a bathroom ministry? You may have never thought of it as such, but in New York City, this is a much
Rev. William H. Barnwell of New Orleans is an Episcopal priest active in Kairos Prison Ministry International. He writes in the Times-Picayune of the need
He carries a cross through one of the country’s toughest neighborhoods, dressed as Jesus. He’s conducted baptisms in Philadelphia’s Love Park. He dreams of creating
Phillip Pullman, whom the New Yorker once called ‘the most outspoken atheist in Britain’, wrote the young adult trilogy, His Dark Materials, which cemented his
What to do with church buildings throughout the world no longer thriving as houses of worship? Oliver Farry, a non-believer, muses about this at the
In the NY Times, TR Luhrmann examines the phenomenon of ‘boggle lines’–the point at which someone draws the line between what can be accepted into