Losing millennials? We have bigger problems now
I haven’t heard much about millennials lately. Bloggers used to be all over the subject, trying to dissect culture to appeal to senior pastors clamouring for answers to fill the generational loss in their churches. Maybe it’s because publishers don’t...
Why Churches Love the Brother of the Prodigal
The story of the Prodigal Son pits the wayward prodigal versus his obedient elder brother. The father rejoices with singing and gifts when the lost prodigal returns. The eldest son sulks in jealousy. Contemporary churches are built to cater and attract the brother of...
SpiderFish Organization – How Churches Can Collaborate to Survive and Thrive
This is an idea out of my upcoming non-fiction book release. Many are familiar with the Starfish and Spider concept on organizational development by Ori Brafman. Alan Hirsch and Mike Frost took the concept and placed it within the organic/missional church context in...Women in Ministry Megalist – Blog Posts, Web Links, Books, Articles
***Updated November 20th, 2017.*** I’ve been sitting on this post for a while. I’m posting as is, and will add over time, due to recent internet rage over #thingsonlychristianwomenhear that went viral on Twitter. Sarah Bessy started the revealing movement...
Death of the Professional Pastor – What You Model Matters
I’m working hard to complete a book I started in 2015. During research, I came across the mini-series published by the GOCN network (must reading for anybody interested in the development of the ‘missional’ church conversation.) Reading Alan...
What the ‘Billy Graham Rule’ Says About Leaders
The United States Vice-President Mike Pence, is in the middle of a cultural row over comments published in the Washington Post, where he related a position touted by many conservatives on male/female relationships referred to as the ‘Billy Graham Rule’,...
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie – Culture Change in the Church
Leaders are always thinking about ways to take a tribe into the future. They also have a good idea how far they can push before meeting immovable resistance. Whether it’s within a church context, non-profit, or corporation, leaders can only move as far as...If faithfulness is what we long for….
Tuesdays are for posts on church development and leadership. __________________________________________ Remember this song? If faithfulness is what God longs for what we do with what we’ve been given matters, and not necessarily the end results. It reasons to...
Stop Going To Church
“What church do you go to?” or “are you going to church?” are deeply engrained sayings in the contemporary Christian experience and lexicon that need to be erased. When ‘church’ becomes the place replacing the people you live deep...
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Author of Thrive, and Soul Coats. Pastor, podcaster, entrepreneur, non-profit developer, and sometimes speaker. Writer on anti-racism, re-imagining faith & culture, diversity, reconciliation, and mission.