Recent Articles
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.
Become a Faith Practitioner
Spiritual healing is our business. What if we took a page from the medical field and specialized?
Creative Minister of the Month – Daphne Reiley
Creative Ministers, doing and being church in new ways.
We’re in the Resurrection business
Church may not seem like a business. But we offer something everyone needs.
What we should learn in seminary
Seminary in the original meaning – a ‘seedbed’ for ideas.
Read this before you think about Stewardship this year
There are new – more faithful, more joyful – ways to reimagine sustainability.
How ‘Quiet Quitting’ Changes the Church
‘Quiet quitting’ is what Rabbi Edwin Friedman called ‘defecting in place’. It’s less about slacking and more about boundaries.
The road to church change goes by the parish administrator’s desk
The role of the parish administrator is changing – but maybe not in the ways we think, and maybe not towards technology.
Church stats to smile about
A small – and growing! – percentage of clergy are now officially ‘free range priests’. New ways of being church are happening.
Being Christian
Being Christian in a world that is a raging dumpster fire mess
Your word is truth
I was prepared to lead an institution that felt much more solid than it was. This brings both sadness and strength.
Why church won’t change
Those left in our church pews are the least likely to change.
Maybe we shouldn’t ask them to.