Father Cathie Caimano, Author at Free Range Priest

Me, John the Baptist, and the Future of Church

We all want change. But we don’t want to change anything. Maybe all it takes is listening to the raving prophets.

Spiritual healing is our business. What if we took a page from the medical field and specialized?

Creative Ministers, doing and being church in new ways.

Church may not seem like a business. But we offer something everyone needs.

Seminary in the original meaning – a ‘seedbed’ for ideas.

There are new – more faithful, more joyful – ways to reimagine sustainability.

‘Quiet quitting’ is what Rabbi Edwin Friedman called ‘defecting in place’. It’s less about slacking and more about boundaries.

The role of the parish administrator is changing – but maybe not in the ways we think, and maybe not towards technology.

A small – and growing! – percentage of clergy are now officially ‘free range priests’. New ways of being church are happening.

Being Christian in a world that is a raging dumpster fire mess