Today, many churches and their related agencies and ministries are shrinking. Often a large portion of those who remain are older adults. Celebrating the Graying Church suggests that this is an opportunity for a new and different kind of ministry—a ministry to,…
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What if we rethink retirement by imagining the time as “the jubilee years”?
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The vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London describes a visionary network for the renewal of church and society
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An Episcopal priest and author offers a different way of understanding bivocational ministry
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The following are the prepared remarks of the managing director of Alban, Nathan Kirkpatrick, at Loren Mead’s funeral at St Alban’s Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2018. In 1994, after Loren had announced his retirement from the…
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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,…
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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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An Episcopal bishop reflects on four realities and priorities for the early years of ministry in a congregation
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The Christian church is about innovation—embodying God’s new life, hope, and community for the world, writes a scholar and priest
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Last fall, I counted down the days to the big MacBook Pro reveal, but now here I sit, typing away on my 5-year-old laptop. While boasting of making the laptop millimeters thinner and ounces lighter, they loaded it with an…
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