Celebrating the top 1% of Methodism is fine, but imagine what inspiration we might find by expanding the field.
Should Reducing Hate be a Measure of Church Effectiveness?
Is it more important that we count people in the pews and dollars in the plate, or the amount of hate that churches combat?
If Dying Churches have Community Gardens, what do Growing Churches have?
When a megachurch pastor picks on small churches, he had better be ready for the mirror to turn on him.
The Mountain: How Christendom Affects Evangelism today
Are you at the Peak or are you in the Shadow of the Mountain?
Weak Link Churches in a Strong Link World
Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast yields yet another parallel to church structure and processes.
Pioneering Plants of the Scrappy West
What the Church can learn–and better appreciate–from the West’s struggle to rebuild Christianity after severe losses.
What the Church can learn from Hillary Clinton
One pundit’s take on how Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary yields a fascinating parallel to the Church.
In the West, invest in People, not Programs
In the None Zone, investing in people instead of programs may unlock answers to the vexing questions about Christianity.
Three Problems with the Top 25 Growing #UMC List
When we lift up the growing churches in our denomination, what are we actually celebrating?
To reach the Nones and Dones, focus on the Ones.
For all the church people fretting about the Nones and the Dones, real transformation can come when churches focus on the Ones.
