The Wired Wanderings of a Postmodern Pilgrim
Posted in Death and Dying, Face Palm - When Failure Happens, Leadership Resources, Pastor Stuff, The Organized Church on Jan 26th, 2014
The Church’s Frightful Kodak Moment | Holy Soup. Today Sunday worship was cancelled because of a snow storm and my wife got the idea that some house cleaning would be in order. In cleaning out a drawer, I found this – a roll of Kodak film. I don’t own a film camera anymore, haven’t for […]
Posted in Generations - Guttenbergers vs. Googlers, Pastor Stuff, Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church on Dec 11th, 2013
David Kinnaman is wrong: How the church really lost the millennials & what we can do to keep the next generation. | the gospel side. I have been reading You Lost Me and I think it is an accurate portrayal of how we lost the Millennials who grew up in the church but Matthew Marino […]
Posted in American Culture, Generations - Guttenbergers vs. Googlers, Pastor Stuff, The Organized Church on Dec 3rd, 2013
ABPnews Blog | Many congregations are stuck in an overly churched culture. Right now I’m sitting in a surgery waiting room while my wife’s stepdad is undergoing cancer surgery. Things are going well but at times like this, my mind wanders like a four year old after eating five twinkies trying to find things to […]
Posted in American Culture, Generations - Guttenbergers vs. Googlers, Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church on Aug 3rd, 2013
A Reluctant Millennial On The State of Church | (A)theologies | Religion Dispatches. An article well worth reading that goes beyond the whole emerging church phenom, which is pretty much over, and instead points to the historic reality of being Church: relational, multigenerational, Christ centered, service oriented. People of every age respond to that in […]
Posted in Generations - Guttenbergers vs. Googlers, Leadership Resources, Pastor Stuff, The Organized Church on May 8th, 2013
11 Traits of Churches That Will Impact the Future | careynieuwhof.com. A quick, well thought out reflection on the need for change in congregations. For those of us who serve in established congregations, this really is must reading for leaders and the led.
Posted in Christian Denominations, Leadership Resources, Pastor Stuff, The Organized Church on Sep 7th, 2012
A Growing Church is a Dying Church « The Theological Wanderings of a Street Pastor. For those of us involved in organized congregations, there is the one reality that we all face in a new congregation – what are you going to do to grow the church? Like Puff the Magic Pastor, whatever has gone […]
Posted in American Culture, Books - Print Is Not Dead Only Different, Fundamentalism - Preserving 19th Century America For the Future, Lutherans, Pastor Stuff, Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church, Wandering, Wired Jesus Podcast on Jun 21st, 2012
One of the things I enjoy about a week at church camp is the chance to unwind and read. Yesterday I experienced the luxury of reading a book cover to cover – Evolving In Monkeytown by Rachel Held Evans. As a long time reader of her blog, I was a slacker in getting around to […]
Posted in American Culture, Books - Print Is Not Dead Only Different, Generations - Guttenbergers vs. Googlers, Language and Lingo, Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church on Jun 10th, 2012
Will Churches Go The Way of Bookstores? | …In the Meantime. More on this later but wanted to get this up on the blog this morning before I head off to lead Sunday morning worship. But perspectives are changing, the religious monopoly is over. On a day when because of a broken AC we are […]
Posted in American Culture, Christian Denominations, Pastor Stuff, Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church on May 17th, 2012
Jonathan Martin: Pastor of Renovatus Church in Charlotte NC – On Mitt Romney, Liberty University and civil religion.. This rather insightful reflection on civil religion popped up on my Twitter feed. I have to admit, I really don’t use twitter like it was intended – for communication and bumper sticker wisdom. For me, its a […]
Posted in American Culture, Christian Denominations, Culture Wars, Face Palm - When Failure Happens, Fundamentalism - Preserving 19th Century America For the Future, Generations - Guttenbergers vs. Googlers, Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church on May 14th, 2012
Rachel Held Evans | How to win a culture war and lose a generation. Once again my friend, Rachel Held Evans, nails it. I remember reading about “The Lost Generation” of the 1920s and we have created our own lost generation in the church in the name of pure doctrine and social justice. I think […]