Two Tsunamis

We are dying. Every last one of us. One inescapable fact of life is that everyone dies. “One out of one,” is the way it was put to me. But what happens when an entire generation begins to die? What happens when that generation is larger than normal? What...

Mutual Advisory Panel

We met for the first time today–20 folks who have dedicated themselves to meeting for an hour a week for the next year. And it was great. We had our first conversation around the topic of “What it will take to grow beyond 200 members.” We began with...

Reconsidering Ordination

Tony Jones is a wonderful thinker who rejects institutional church thinking for a wide variety of reasons. I keep track of what he writes over at Beliefnet and follow him on Twitter. Over the course of the past few days, I fear that Tony has finally taken a leap that...