“It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1960. This quote remains true and begs the question “How do we heal the church divide?” Mario…
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Bruce Epperly invites us to imagine a new way of seeing retirement — as a season of fulfillment and service.
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Allen Stanton acknowledges the many challenges facing rural congregations — but also offers a hopeful vision for their futures.
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What if we rethink retirement by imagining the time as “the jubilee years”?
Read MoreSam Wells: ‘At the Heart, On the Edge’
The vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London describes a visionary network for the renewal of church and society
Read MoreAllen Stanton: What churches can learn from higher education
A year ago, I made the jump from pastoring a local church to running a center at a small denominationally-affiliated college. While I was well-versed in the conversations around church vitality, the world of higher education has been relatively new…
Read MoreMark Edington: A vision for bivocational ministry
An Episcopal priest and author offers a different way of understanding bivocational ministry
Read MoreTributes to Loren B. Mead
Dan Hotchkiss | Rolf Janke | Speed Leas | Alice Mann | Roy Oswald | Sam Rodman | Barbara Wheeler | James Wind As the era of rapid church growth wound down at the end of the 1960s, Loren Mead was one…
Read MoreRemembering Loren B. Mead
Loren Benjamin Mead, son of Dr. Walter Russell Mead and Dorothy Nauss Mead, died peacefully under hospice care at his home, Goodwin House Bailey’s Crossroads in Falls Church, Virginia on May 5, 2018. Loren was born in Florence, South Carolina,…
Read MoreLoren B. Mead: The last interview
Loren B. Mead — priest, educator, author and founder of the Alban Institute — died on May 5, 2018. In this interview from 2016, he returned to the themes that marked his life, his ministry, and his teaching.
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