Building healthy churches begins with building healthy church members. That’s the thinking behind Forward Movement, a 1930′s initiative of The Episcopal Church, which is best known for its ‘Day by Day’ daily devotional pamphlet, but also includes tract, and book publishing. Scott Gunn is the gifted, energetic, and new face behind Forward. He’s a popular [...]

The North American Church is too easily enculturated, says author Rodney Clapp – and is at its best when it’s set apart as a peculiar people (1 Peter 2:9). Rodney, whose written several books and has a column in The Christian Century, says we need to get back to formation as a central organizing principle [...]

Oh yes, a new day is dawning for North American Christianity. Fewer denominational churches. Fewer buildings. Fewer full-time clergy. But an incredible new energy is stirring as new communities emerge to live out the old story. In this interview the brilliant Phyllis Tickle, religion expert and author of many books including The Great Emergence, sketches [...]

Why not bring joy and hospitality to the neighborhood with a festive, Christ-centered inter-generational party? That’s the idea behind La Posada – a Latin American holiday that re-enacts the journey of Joseph and Mary to Jerusalem. In this interview hispanic ministries expert Anthony Guillen tells us how churches use this colorful holiday to evangelize and [...]