So in response to the recent USA today article about people turning away from religion I have had several conversations mostly in cyberspace with Christians who give me way to understand why our culture is moving into being post-religious.
First, there is the knee jerk reaction and immediate assumption by some of us Christians that if people are [...]
If the thoughts in this post from CS monitor (in light of the recent article and study reported in USA Today) are true then I sadly don’t think the church in the US is ready.
The coming evangelical collapse | csmonitor.com
Check out http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-aris-study-christianity-on-the-decline-in-america for more thoughts on this from the original source for the CS monitor post.
Continue reading about More changes coming on the religious landscape
Here is a link to Alan Roxburgh founder of Allelon vlogging on Rodney Starks book What Americans Really Believe.
The insights Roxburgh shares from the book reinforces the though I have ad for some time that we don’t need to go do 2.0 churches right now in America. Churches that bear not resemblance to the historic church. [...]
Continue reading about Alan Roxburgh -: The Missional Journey -Is not what we might think
I’m heading to this weekend to participate in a panel discussion at the Religious News Writers Association Annual Conference. Info is below
BREAKOUT PANEL #2: Whither Congregations?
The big wooden doors are closing as graying churches and synagogues can no longer sustain themselves in changing neighborhoods. This panel will look at why some neighborhood congregations are dying [...]
Continue reading about DC this weekend for RNA conference panel
Today I got the chance to here Alan Hirsch talk at Grand Rapid Theological Seminary. These folks are constantly bringing some good people into town to stimulate conversation all across the theological spectrum of thought. This is a good thing. No they aren’t paying me to say that.
Now on to Hirsch. I read the shaping [...]
Rick Warren Goes Global – TIME
Rick Warren is taking his P.E.A.C.E. initiative global.
“an attempt to radically re-engineer Evangelicalism’s huge missionary culture, connecting individual churches in the U.S. to congregations in target countries rather than funneling aid and evangelism through agencies that send trained professionals into the field’
Is this the direction we should be going in [...]
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