The Next Church
If religion continues to church-it-up in pretense and inside baseball, we become like Gilbert and Sullivan operettas: great good stuff, beloved by an ever-shrinking, self-congratulating group of lovely people.
Mission in Europe and the Future of Anglicanism
Decline is profound in many places, but there are heartening areas of vitality and new life.
Reflections on the Beginning of a New Era
My church has entered a period of decline, even stripping, in which its social position is eroding, its institutions are collapsing, and its common life lies in tatters.
Underemployed: The present and future of TEC clergy
Ordinands are being set up for real struggle, if we continue to ordain more clergy than the church can responsibly support.
The future of the Episcopal Church’s clergy
The Episcopal Church has an impending leadership and experience vacuum.
Facing Episcopal Church decline
New analysis offers clarity on the numerical fortunes of the Episcopal Church (TEC) in the USA in recent decades.
Faithfully facing congregational decline
It is a mistake to think that a large group of people in one building on Sunday is somehow more faithful than the meager few in another.
Shooting the messengers? ‘Conservative’ theology and church growth
The authors of “Theology Matters” concluded that congregations who espouse “liberal” theology are declining and congregations who espouse “conservative” theology are growing.