Children, Youth, and a (not so) New Kind of Christianity

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I spent last week in Washington, DC for a conference called Children, Youth, and a New Kind of Christianity. Though I wasn’t sure I would be able to attend until the last minute, I had been looking forward to this conference for a year or so. It promised to bring together the two theological areas [...]

Emerging Church Responses to Our Changing World

This post comes directly from the PC(USA) Mid Councils Commission report (28-29). I wrote this for the “Changing Contexts” section of the report. I am posting discrete sections of our report as a means of generating conversation, so please make comments. At the end of this post, I have suggested some questions to stimulate your [...]

Mission: Chicago

Jerusalem. Detroit. Belfast. These are the major cities I visited during my summer travels—and there were plenty of smaller and equally important cities and towns in between. One of my takeaways from this summer of travel is a desire to know as much (and more) about Chicago as I learned about these other cities and [...]

Doug Pagitt, Church in the Inventive Age

Doug Pagitt’s most recent book, Church in the Inventive Age, is a quick but valuable read. Doug offers a historical stratigraphy of American Christianity over the past 200 years—a relatively short period of time that has seen remarkably quick and far-reaching change—into four periods: the Agrarian Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, and what [...]