Topic: Congregations
Mark Chaves: Congregational Tolerance
As much as we hear about how intolerant religious people are, you may be surprised to know what sorts of behaviors and beliefs congregations will tolerate not only in their members, but in their lay leaders.
Thursday's News & Ideas
- Canterbury to bankers: Repent
- Still waiting in Duxbury
- Clueless about leadership
- Gut instinct
Michael O. Emerson: Cracks in the Christian color wall
Large Protestant churches are more than twice as likely to be multiracial now compared to a decade ago. Why is that? And what does it mean for the rest of us?
Tuesday's News & Ideas
- Is church "code" hurting church growth?
- Evangelicals & Catholics Together after Neuhaus
- No one builds statues of committees
Wednesday's News & Ideas
- Terry Eagleton on the New Atheists: Even the "cruelties and stupidities that the Irish Church has perpetrated do not prevent me from recalling how, without it, generations of my own ancestors would have gone unschooled, unnursed, unconsoled and unburied."
- Even high-paid search firms can't find the "right" senior pastor
- The corporate world is an addict. Its drug of choice? Change
Mark Chaves: Congregations are followers rather than leaders
Congregations are slightly wealthier and better educated than a decade ago. But those numbers are misleading. In fact, congregations tend to mirror social changes rather than catalyze them.
Monday's News & Ideas
- Seminaries under pressure
- Craigslist: ‘Need mystery worshipper’
- The miracles are window dressing
- Skip the revenge movies
- God at the office
- We have met the enemy
Mark Chaves: How common is congregational conflict?
How often do churches fight? Are some congregations perennially at odds? The National Congregations Study has some answers.
Monday's News & Ideas
- Church papers struggle
- ELCA vote: ‘Too close to call'
- No recession for prosperity gospel
- Positively Medieval
Michael Jinkins: The abba replies with a word
Last week we posted Tom Arthur's questions as a young pastor in a start-up congregation modeled on megachurches to his elder, Michael Jinkins, about his "Letters to New Pastors," which assumed a very different pastoral context. Here is Jinkins' reply.
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