Some Young People Staying to Lead, Serve Church
Not all young people are leaving the Catholic Church. Nor are those who stay uniformly conservative, traditionalist, or doctrinally dogmatic. Those realities make few headlines, pushed aside by [...]
Design Thinking May Be Just the Tool Churches Need
By D. Dale WalkerPart 1 of 2 How can churches engage young people meaningfully, keeping them active and growing in faith? Helpful ways of answering this question exist outside of churches and [...]
Design Thinking Can Help Churches Serve Young People
By D. Dale WalkerPart 2 of 2 One of the defining characteristics of the American church is its entrepreneurial spirit. Innovations like Methodism and Mormonism took deep root in this country, as [...]
The Transformative Power of Music
Music throughout history has provided people a means to gather, talk, worship, pray, celebrate, dance, sing, meditate. Music is both communal and profoundly personal, providing comfort, [...]
Church Called To Be Midwife
Note: Christiana Rice, coauthor with Michael Frost of To Alter Your World: Partnering with God to Rebirth Our Communities (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2017), participated in a panel [...]
Undocked Scooters May Be Telling Us Something
By Andrea D. Chavez-Kopp If you live in or visit any major city, you will find the new phenomenon of motorized scooters zipping along the streets. Walking the sidewalks, you may see people [...]
The Ministry of Two Chairs and a Listening Heart
A nonprofit in San Francisco has found an interesting facilities model for its efforts to nurture human connection and build community. Two chairs and a city sidewalk. On May 7, 2015, Sidewalk [...]
Are Religious ‘Brands’ Tuned In, Credible?
What’s the difference between creating an attractive and engaging religious community and marketing? I am asking myself that as I read The Gen Z Frequency: How Brands Tune In & Build [...]
