Church Matters
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Why I Hate Announcement Time
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5 min read
My least favorite part of any worship service is the announcement time. There are so many things wrong with it and there are so few ways to actually fix it. I’m starting to think we should do away with the whole enterprise. Many Episcopal churches place the announcements in the middle of the service. Honestly,…
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The Two Politics
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4 min read
In the United States we have two politics. Competitive Politics The first, I’ll call “Competitive Politics,” is the two-party system of pugilism, evidenced by our incessant competitive metaphors. We talk about horse races, boxing matches, and football. So outdated is this vision of politics, that we even use war metaphors as evidence of only two…
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How about we occupy the church?
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3 min read
Of course the teens should occupy the church; but not just teens. Us! We should occupy the church! We should demand a better church! We should lay claim to our leadership of an institution that today only benefits some! Brian Kirk asks in a column for Patheos: “Should we help teens occupy the church?” which…
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5 Keys to Engaging Mid-Lifers in church
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6 min read
One of my good church friends is Jimmy*. Jimmy is a Baby Boomer, served in Vietnam, runs a small business he owns. He, like many of his generation, grew up going to church and spent the middle twenty or so years not. Jimmy and I would talk about what matters…
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Halloween, All Saints’, & too much candy
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4 min read
A web-friend was recently asked about Halloween and what he thinks about it as a Christian. His response, as expected, was thorough, honest, and appropriate. Mine, is well…perhaps a little less so. I don’t really dig on Halloween & Church. Not because I think it is demonic or sinful or whatever. And it is not…