Church in the 21st Century

CHURCH IN THE 21st CENTURY

A Good and Joyful Thing: Turning Outwards

http://goodandjoyfulthing.blogspot.com/2012/05/turning-outwards.html

Seizing the Episcopal Moment: A Manifesto of Hope for the Episcopal Church (by Donald Schell and Karen Ward)

http://api.ning.com/files/E0lkqI5YTdUwm8VWF-yobAlsEGrRPAkaNl6-InFYx4oBzErZ-dqNBIC6MluEcvSZ7-QzGvcb19hKAIsAk6O*r*meOkIVOyFG/SEIZINGTHEEPISCOPALMOMENT.FINAL.7.4.09.pdf

Exploring collaborative ministries

http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2012/02/02/exploring-collaborative-ministries/

Pioneer ministry | Fresh Expressions

http://www.freshexpressions.org.uk/pioneerministry

New clergy, new churches: Church planting as a first call | The Christian Century

http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2012-03/new-clergy-new-churches

Anglican and Dominican

http://anglicandominican.blogspot.com/2010/01/reforming-north-american-christianity.htm

A Good and Joyful Thing: But What About Jesus?

http://goodandjoyfulthing.blogspot.com/2012/06/but-what-about-jesus.html

A Growing Church is a Dying Church | The Theological Wanderings of a Street Pastor

http://streetpastor.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/a-growing-church-is-a-dying-church/

Q&A: Tough love for ‘spiritual but not religious’  http://www.unitedmethodistreporter.com/2013/01/qa-tough-love-for-spiritual-but-not-religious/

I’m Done Growing the Church

http://ijoey.org/im-done-growing-the-church

Sermon by Dean Peter Elliott; Ash Wednesday | Christ Church Cathedral Vancouver

http://www.cathedral.vancouver.bc.ca/2013/02/14/sermon-by-dean-peter-elliott-ash-wednesday/

Small Churches are the Next Big Thing - With One Condition | New Small Church

http://newsmallchurch.com/small-churches-the-next-big-thing/

The Missional Church... simple - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arxfLK_sd68

Making Disciples - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJWkQ9UP_m8

Christine Organ: How to Avoid a Religious Apocalypse: 6 Changes the Church Needs to Make

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-organ/how-to-avoid-a-religious-apocalypse-6-changes-the-church-needs-to-make_b_3001575.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

Shaping vicars: a game of unreality; (Tim Thornton) | Fresh Expressions

http://www.freshexpressions.org.uk/views/shaping-vicars

11 Traits of Churches That Will Impact the Future | careynieuwhof.com

http://careynieuwhof.com/2013/05/11-traits-of-churches-that-will-impact-the-future/

Preparing for the zombie (church) apocalypse | Seven whole days

http://www.sevenwholedays.org/2013/08/07/preparing-for-the-zombie-church-apocalypse/

101 Things To Do (To Continue the Church)

https://www.ctepiscopal.org/news/newsView.asp?NewsId=40968154&NewsCategoryID=1

Équi-Table : Going Missional in Quebec City - The Sustainist

http://ehflaw.typepad.com/blog/2013/09/%C3%A9qui-table-going-missional-in-quebec-city.html

Non-Mega-Church: Church Growth for small churches, mainlines, and a New Generation

http://nonmegachurch.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00:00:00-06:00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-06:00&max-results=

The Church Needs More Innovative Pastors like MTV Needs More Twerking* | Pacific Northwest UMC News Blog

http://www.pnwumc.org/news/the-church-needs-more-innovative-pastors-like-mtv-needs-more-twerking/

Nadia Bolz-Weber Talks Tattoos, Resurrection, and God's Disruption (video) | On Being

http://www.onbeing.org/blog/nadia-bolz-weber-talks-tattoos-resurrection-and-gods-disruption-video/5921

As denominations decline, numbers of unpaid ministers rise | Religion News Service

http://www.religionnews.com/2013/09/17/denominations-decline-numbers-unpaid-ministers-rise/

Five Things That Are Holding Christianity Back - Christian Piatt | God's Politics Blog | Sojourners

http://sojo.net/blogs/2013/09/23/five-things-are-holding-christianity-back

I Want to Be Called a Missionary. | Feeding on Manna

http://www.feedingonmanna.org/?p=314

As denominations decline, numbers of unpaid ministers rise | Religion News Service

http://www.religionnews.com/2013/09/17/denominations-decline-numbers-unpaid-ministers-rise/

8 Reasons Most Churches Never Break the 200 Attendance Mark | careynieuwhof.com

http://careynieuwhof.com/2013/09/8-reasons-most-churches-never-break-the-200-attendance-mark/

Non-Mega-Church: Church Growth for small churches, mainlines, and a New Generation: Changing Small Church Culture - a success story

http://nonmegachurch.blogspot.com/2013/10/changing-small-church-culture-success.html

Missing Message in Today’s Churches

http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2013/10/17/the-missing-message-in-todays-churches

Posts: 10 Ways to Create Community Where You Live (06-21-2012) -  Abundant Community

http://www.abundantcommunity.com/home/posts/friends/parms/1/post/20120621_10_ways_to_create_community_where_you_live.html?utm_campaign=October+2013+update&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=10+Ways+to+Create+Community+Where+You+Live

Making ‘digital’ disciples

http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2013/10/11/19617/

Alban - Building Up Congregations and Their Leaders     http://www.alban.org/conversation.aspx?id=10363

Renton Restaurant | Luther's Table Restaurant

http://www.lutherstable.org/

Hello, My Name Is Church | The Unappreciated Pastor

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-unappreciated-pastor/hello-my-name-is-church_b_4124322.html?fb_action_ids=10100132792419732&fb_action_types=og.likes

Why Nobody Wants To Go To Church Anymore | Group

http://www.group.com/why-nobody-wants-to-go-to-church-anymore

Greater freedom in the Diocese of Maine - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdB7HL2vVms&feature=share&list=UU11cTUwY_iBxbvLQHXZdg6A

How Celebrity, Consumerism & Competition Are Killing The Church | Verge Network

http://www.vergenetwork.org/2013/09/03/how-celebrity-consumerism-competition-are-killing-the-church/

Religion in America’s states and counties, in 6 maps

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/12/12/religion-in-americas-states-and-counties-in-6-maps/

Becoming a Welcoming Congregation | buildingfaith

http://www.buildfaith.org/2013/12/16/becoming-a-welcoming-congregation/

Moving "the front line" of your ministry forward

http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/evangelism/moving_the_front_line_of_your.html

The Church (What Will the Church Do?) - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax8Ta7PGe7s

Alban - Church as Wikipedia

http://alban.org/conversation.aspx?id=10390

Evangelical drama needs Mainline experience | The Millennial Pastor

http://millennialpastor.net/2014/01/06/evangelical-drama-needs-mainline-experience/?utm_content=bufferd7413&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

A Script to Live (and to Die) By: 19 Theses by Walter Brueggemann  | Per Crucem ad Lucem

http://jasongoroncy.com/2010/02/03/a-script-to-live-and-to-die-by-19-theses-by-walter-brueggemann/

Cathedrals are growing. But so what? - What is in Kelvin’s Head?

http://thurible.net/2014/01/17/cathedrals-are-growing/

Tarnish or Marks of Loving Use?  Of Innovation and Tradition in the Church | The Sub-Dean’s Stall

http://thesubdeansstall.org/2014/01/08/tarnish-or-marks-of-loving-use-of-innovation-and-tradition-in-the-church/

How Primitive Sociology is Killing the Church of England | Humane Pursuits

http://humanepursuits.com/how-primitive-sociology-is-killing-the-church-of-england/

High Church?  Low Church?  Broad Church?  On the Insufficiency of Labels | The Sub-Dean’s Stall

http://thesubdeansstall.org/2014/01/08/high-church-low-church-broad-church-on-the-insufficiency-of-labels/

The Best Way to Challenge Your View of God| RELEVANT Magazine

http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god/church/best-way-challenge-your-view-god

5 Really Bad Reasons To Leave Your Church | RELEVANT Magazine

http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god/church/5-really-bad-reasons-leave-your-church

Of Experts and Authority:  Trust, Love, and Obedience in our Doctrine, Discipline, and Worship | The Sub-Dean’s Stall

http://thesubdeansstall.org/2014/01/24/of-experts-and-authority-trust-love-and-obedience-in-our-doctrine-discipline-and-worship/

An Assize Sermon Reflection: What Needs to be Re-Imagined? | The Sub-Dean's Stall

http://thesubdeansstall.org/2014/01/29/an-assize-sermon-reflection-what-needs-to-be-re-imagined/

12 Reasons Why it is Good to Be a Church Bully | The Millennial Pastor

http://millennialpastor.net/2014/01/23/12-reasons-why-it-is-good-to-be-a-church-bully/

The Church’s Frightful Kodak Moment  |  Holy Soup

http://holysoup.com/2014/01/15/the-churchs-frightful-kodak-moment/

Shoppers, including Church Shoppers Go Online

http://www.faithandleadership.com/blog/01-24-2014/shoppers-including-church-shoppers-are-going-online?page=full

Meaningless Church Jargon

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber/2014/02/828/

10 Very Possible Reasons Your Church Isn't Growing | careynieuwhof.com

http://careynieuwhof.com/2014/01/10-very-possible-reasons-your-church-isnt-growing/

'Dinner Church' Where Parishioners Eat While They Worship Coming to Gowanus - Gowanus - DNAinfo.com New York

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140213/gowanus/dinner-church-where-parishioners-eat-while-they-worship-coming-gowanus

From Jake Dell / THIS WEEK: Butts in Pews, or, Why Anthanasius would have used SEO

http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/marketing/2014/02/08/from-jake-dell-this-week-defending-the-faith-or-anthanasius-would-have-used-seo/

7 Secrets of Highly Successful Synagogues — and Churches – Forward.com

http://forward.com/articles/192545/-secrets-of-highly-successful-synagogues-and-ch/?p=all

The Canary in the Coal Mine (Alban Closing)

http://ancientfuturefaith.net/2014/03/20/the-canary-in-the-coal-mine/

Alban Institute, a resource for mainline institutions, to shutter | Religion News Service

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/03/19/alban-institute-resource-mainline-institutions-shut-doors/

Why We Need More Entrepreneurial Church Leaders, Not More Shepherds | careynieuwhof.com

http://careynieuwhof.com/2014/03/why-we-need-more-entrepreneurial-church-leaders-not-more-shepherds/

NY Times - Dying Churches Revived in a Flash http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/opinion/dying-churches-revived-in-a-flash.html?emc=edit_th_20140322&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=49823309&_r

Urban Church P̶l̶a̶n̶t̶i̶n̶g̶  Plantations

http://www.christenacleveland.com/2014/03/urban-church-plantations/

Missional questions; one parish’s list | ctepiscopal pearls

http://ctepiscopalpearls.org/2014/02/25/missional-questions-one-parishs-list/

Laura E. Everett: The face of an institution

http://www.faithandleadership.com/content/laura-e-everett-the-face-institution?page=full

Discipleship and Celebration | The Living Church

http://livingchurch.org/discipleship-and-celebration

Bolz-Weber asks, “What does it mean to be a public church?” - The Presbyterian Outlook

http://pres-outlook.org/2014/03/bolz-weber-asks-mean-public-church/

NY Times - Denominations Downsizing and Selling Assets

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/us/denominations-downsizing-and-selling-assets-in-more-secular-era.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

Discrimination in the Name of Jesus | OnFaith

http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2014/03/11/discrimination-in-the-name-of-jesus/31242

Holy stuff: What is Left When a Church Closes | The Christian Century

http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2014-02/holy-stuff#.Uxk_5Jo86Io.facebook

An Open Apology to the Local Church | Christianity Today

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/april/open-apology-to-local-church.html?&visit_source=facebook

Mission … Mission … Mission: Part One | A Good and Joyful Thing

http://agoodandjoyfulthing.com/2014/03/01/mission-mission-mission-part-one/

Structuring for Discipleship

http://www.churchwork.com/structuring-for-discipleship/

Rowan Williams is right to tell supposed ‘persecuted’ Christians to grow up - Comment - Voices - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/rowan-williams-is-right-to-tell-supposed-persecuted-christians-to-grow-up-8775011.html

Of gimmicks and Gospel | Seven whole days

http://www.sevenwholedays.org/2014/03/03/of-gimmicks-and-gospel/

Questioning the Questions

http://www.ucc.org/feed-your-spirit/stillspeaking-weekly/questioning-the-questions-1.html

Homeless Jesus Statue

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/homeless-jesus-statue_n_4875892.html

Mark Sandlin: 10 Things Church Can Learn From Geeks

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-sandlin/10-things-church-can-learn-from-geeks_b_2839507.html

The Missional Church: A Humble and Contrite Heart | The Sub-Dean's Stall http://thesubdeansstall.org/2013/12/14/the-missional-church-a-humble-and-contrite-heart/

Book Notes on Missional Church Resources

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0nRXj1iVnGsU3dXWVVwYW1EYkU&usp=sharing

Kintsugi, Brokenness, and the Missional Church | The Sub-Dean's Stall

http://thesubdeansstall.org/2014/01/02/kintsugi-brokenness-and-the-missional-church/

Can God make it in Hollywood?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/sunday-review/can-god-make-it-in-hollywood.html?_r=0

End of Elite Denominational Headquarters

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-marty/end-of-elite-denomination_b_5038246.html