The “New Normal”? Observations for Church Leaders from the COVID-19 Lockdown By Neal Michell COVID-19 shutdown feels like walking on a frozen pond with cracks all around us. Church leaders are so busy trying to keep their congregants together and adjust to the changes wrought by the ... Read More...
Outcome-based discipleship What might it reasonably look like for the witness of Christian disciples to change the world in a way that is appropriately modest, that is, short of presuming to build Jerusalem?
The art of leadership: Playing ‘piano’ The image of leadership being valorized in both the Church and the society in our time is the leader who can play the changes fortissimo. But is it not also important to be able to play softly?
Mission amid ‘churning’ We are in the midst of a quieter kind of "mfecane," a great churning. We need to raise our heads and notice the series of dramatic changes that we are living through.
Maybe you should stay. Maybe… I am hardly suggesting that “staying” — in a job, in a parish, in a denomination, in a city, with an institution — is always the right thing to do, only that, for Christians, change rather than stability bears the burden of proof, a burden that can be satisfied, but is borne nonetheless.
Keeping Easter in a world of change My early formation as an Episcopalian was shaped to a large extent by the first person I ever felt confident in calling “my priest.” Among his many notable features, I learned much from the way he kept Easter. He would remind us Sunday after Sunday, from our E... Read More...
