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2 days ago · As a result, megachurches now dominate the practice of contemporary Protestantism, setting new standards for how a church should look, sound, and feel and establishing the mantra of “church growth” as the widely adopted aim and purpose of modern ministry. Spatial strategies have been at the core of these growth efforts.
2 days ago · Episode 222: Building a Multi-Inclusive Church, with Efrem Smith and Dan Kreiss, authors of Church for Everyone; Episode 221: Miroslav Volf’s Take on Moving Forward, a Quick Conversation with Tod Bolsinger and Markus Watson; Episode 220: Leading Through Tragedy, Adversity, and Crisis, with Gayle Beebe, author of The Crucibles that Shape Us
1 day ago · Megachurch pastors in Dallas are starting to drop like flies. On June 9, Tony Evans stepped away for an unspecified period of time from the 10,000-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, a church he started in his living room and led for 48 years, explaining vaguely that he fell short of a standard “a number of years ago.” One week later, Mike Buster resigned as executive pastor of the 45,000 ...
1 day ago · Courtesy of Matt Bays. He stood just inside my office. He’d pulled the door closed behind him. “I need to ask you a question,” he told me. It was 2015. I was a 44-year-old pastor. My desk ...
1 day ago · A surging movement of secular citizens is defending the separation of church and state against cultists and the local bosses of right-wing megachurches. And everyone from the League of Women Voters to the NAACP is fighting for our voting rights against the mutating tactics of voter suppression, the endless cycles of gerrymandering and the ...
4 days ago · Impact of the Internet. The rise of technology and the internet has made it much easier to access all kinds of information, ideas, and perspectives. One side effect of this is that some people ...
1 day ago · Alexis Draut, 28, was raised Christian in Kentucky. Her parents took her and her sister to nondenominational megachurches that adhered to a lot of Baptist and Pentecostal ideals, she said. As a kid, she loved the way every service felt “like a concert,” filled with music and light, and she made loads of friends through church.
