We are hearing from a number of quarters that American society is in trouble like we haven’t seen in a long time. I share this worry. We feel it locally, among our neighborhoods and acquaintances. The blight of hatred spreads
The Transformation of Congregational Culture
In Hosea 2, we find a beautiful promise of restoration immediately after God’s judgment against Israel’s infamous infidelity. The language in the promise is that of the New Creation. “On that day” God will reclaim the adulteress Israel. The Lord
The Church Needs a Gestalt Shift
“Gestalt” – a word some of us academic types use on occasion. Gestalt has to do with perception, of seeing the whole, all at once, rather than parts. Many more have surely seen the image of the woman/women that illustrates
“His Winnowing Fork is in His Hand”
(I wrote this post, as you can see, two days ago. I felt like I should sit on it and let it simmer before I hit “publish.) It’s Palm Sunday afternoon, 2020. We have never seen a Holy Week like
The Twentysomething Soul #4 – Nones (Don’t Believe Everything You Read about Them)
In this last installment on my little series of reflections from Tim Clydesdale and Kathleen Garces-Foley’s book, The Twentysomething Soul, I focus on that oh so slippery demographic category, The Nones. This cohort of emerging adults has suffered a good