Creating a safe place
In my book, Moral Values: What I Learned Growing Up in Church, (available as an eBook), I ask the question: “Can the Christian church, divided over different beliefs about moral values, create safe places so people can live together in love?” My answer, in part, includes a “Safe Place Covenant” to guide congregations in learning [...]
Emerging Church
The Church that is emerging in the 21st century will be different from the common tradition of the historical Church in many ways. What is happening cannot be identified simply with some network (such as the Emergent Village) or some semi-organized movement called the Emergent Church. People around the world increasingly value compassion and acceptance [...]
5 Movements of Changing Churches
The Church changes in every generation, certainly in every century. There are pivotal generations, however, and I believe we are living in one of those times. The history of the Christian Church focuses on such things as Creeds, Confessions, and Common practices. When people talked about “what we believe,” they most often meant what we [...]
Len Sweet on the Google World
I encourage every Christian leader who wants to successfully guide the congregation through the change we are experiencing in this 21st century to watch this video: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=397291465953
What in the world is God doing?
The mainline Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church that dominated American religious life in the 20th century have been in decline for over 30 years. The seminaries they founded and supported – and that trained most of their ministers and priests – have also been in decline and many are in serious financial trouble. [...]
What in the world is God doing?
The mainline Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church that dominated American religious life in the 20th century have been in decline for over 30 years. The seminaries they founded and supported – and that trained most of their ministers and priests – have also been in decline and many are in serious financial trouble. [...]
Everything is changing
“Could we today be facing a change in how human society is organized that is as revolutionary in its implications as was the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg over 500 years ago?” – Philip Clayton (Professor of Theology at Claremont School of Theology [See full post at TheOoze.com] If he’s right, what are [...]
What is God’s dream for the world?
As we talk with people who see things differently from us, we want to “reframe” the conversation. When taking a picture with a camera, as we look through the lens we “frame” the shot by what we choose to focus on. In the same way, we can shift the camera angle and find a different [...]
Moral Values: What I Learned Growing Up in Church