This past Monday I attended a workshop in Indianapolis sponsored by The Center For Congregations, which is a wonderful gift to the churches of Indiana supported by the Lilly Endowment. The workshop was entitled “Creating Congregational Cultures of Generosity”, and, as the title suggests, was about religious giving and financing a church’s ministry and [...]
Archive for May, 2009
How Many Times, O Lord?!!
Posted in Weekly Enews on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Are We Having A Rummage Sale?
Posted in Weekly Enews on May 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Great Emergence by Phyllis Tickle is one of the books I’m currently reading, and it is fascinating!
Tickle opens the book with the premise that roughly every 500 years the Christian Church goes through a great rummage sale of sorts, where “the empowered structures of institutionalized Christianity, whatever they may be at that time, become [...]
