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My Final Post as the (un)Tamed Cynic
Reinhold Niebuhr, 1892-1971 It’s time for a change. I’ve been writing this blog for over three and a half years under the tagline “Posts from the Blog of an (un)Tamed Cynic.” It was a nod to Reinhold...
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Why Does Church Matter?
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to talk with a group of parents at our church’s fall Family Camp. I used our time to explore with them a question that is central to this blog: does church still...
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Unity not Uniformity in Post-Christendom
Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine (center) and the bishops of the First Council of Nicaea (325) holding the Niceno–Constantinopolitan Creed of 381. For a while now I have been reflecting on the...
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Yesterday on Facebook someone reminded me that I never posted the third video on post-Christendom that I put together for a friend’s adult education class. (You can find the first two here and here.)...
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Why Join A Church?
Image by Craig Taylor Last week a young leader in our church told me that she had been in a conversation with a friend about the benefits of joining a church versus simply going to church. She thought...
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The Peter Principle at Church
For a while now I’ve been wanting to make periodic posts that take Seth Godin’s brilliant daily posts on business and marketing and apply them to my world in the church, under the tag “Seth Goes to...
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Surprised By Hospitality
During my lunch break I needed to mail a package. As I walked toward the local post office, I felt a sense of dread welling up inside of me. I’ve experienced poor customer service there and I wasn’t...
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Why Evangelism?
I’ve never had “evangelism” in my job title before, and quite frankly I never thought that I would. Though most people never said anything out loud, when I told them about my new job I could see the...
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Show Up, Go Out, and…
Today Seth Godin made his 6000th blog post. He uses the occasion to suggest that writer’s block is a myth. But then he takes it one step further: More important than the output, though, is the act...
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Managing Decline or Pruning the Tree?
Every mainline Protestant institution—churches, denominations, seminaries, publishing houses, parachurch ministries, non-profit organizations—has been dealing with decline for decades. Increasingly,...
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