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It Takes More than Counting the Sheep to Really Wake Up the Church

Sep 25, 2012 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism

The Rev. Jeremy Smith at HackingChristianity.net has discovered a method of providing narrative, subjective information to flesh out the cold hard data of Vital Congregations. Doesn’t sound like much, does it? But it most definitely is something big....

Repost: Church Metrics are Bad? Does Not Compute.

Aug 21, 2012 | Leading the Church, Methodism

Logic seems to have failed some of us Methodists — probably because we aren’t Vulcans, or something like that. United Methodists all over the blogosphere and twitterverse are posting and tweeting logical fallacies right and left, mostly in the area of the...

Does Not Compute: Metrics are Bad?

Apr 9, 2012 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism

Logic seems to have failed some of us Methodists — probably because we aren’t Vulcans, or something like that. United Methodists all over the blogosphere and twitterverse are posting and tweeting logical fallacies right and left, mostly in the area of the...

Tear Down the Silos

Mar 30, 2012 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism, US Politics

The Call to Action proposal is getting support from across the United Methodist Church. With just a few more days before General Conference 2012 begins, people across the denomination are publishing their positions regarding this proposal focusing on restructuring the...

Call to Action: Don’t Confuse the “What” with the “How.”

Mar 27, 2012 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism

Bishop Joe Pennel has raised some excellent questions in a recent post at the UMPortal. He indicates that we are not focusing on the right things with Call to Action in the United Methodist Church. He writes: I cannot prove it but I am of the opinion that...