Review this map. (Note that the District of Columbia is colored in.) And now think about church growth. The title is a big hint to where I’m heading. More later. Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d4188′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
I’ve been studying the Quakers more than usual lately. Not just the Friends General Conference — the main fellowship for liberal Quakers, including many who aren’t necessarily Christian — but others, including the Holiness pastoral Quakers, and the Conservatives, with whom I would likely be most at home, should I ever go to the Friends. [...]
I often think about little-bitty churches. They have fewer than two dozen in worship and worship might be twice a month or less often. It may be the one thing the congregation does with regularity, and it comes with a mix of pride and anxiety. Of course, I also tend to think of the surviving [...]
I almost missed the fact that members of the Pullman Memorial Universalist Church, Albion, New York (21 members) started group-blogging church events, as Chalicefire. While unofficial, I shouldn’t wonder if the blog will become the de facto church site — as Google records — in time and the tone is pleasantly and lightly outwards-reaching. A [...]
Well, I’ve decided to wipe the default operating system and, like Fr. Chris had intimated, add a specially-adapted version of Xubuntu (a version of Ubuntu with a lighter interface) in its place. The deciding factor was a little caution in the user guide: Removing the pre-installed software is not allowed. Really? Even though I have [...]
Apart from my internship church — which was either the largest or second largest church in the Unitarian Universalist Association at the time — all of the churches I’ve served, regularly supplied or pastored have been small. All but my last pastorate — which would be in the smallest 25% in terms of Sunday attendance [...]
I didn’t want to blog twice about Pennsylvania websites yesterday, so I waited twenty-four hours. The thing is that the churches that give us these sites are really small. Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d2160′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
