I. This is a real interesting chart. (From here.) Notice its the affiliation of 16 year olds and not adults. So in one sense it is predictive of where the whole bodies are heading. So even though white Roman Catholic congregations may be on the decline, if anything the hispanic inflow upholds . . . → Read More: A few odd things…
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That title is from this Mark Steyn article. It would be heartening if more presidential candidates understood the urgency. But there is a strange lack of boldness in most of their proposals. They, too, seem victims of that 1950 moment, and assumptions of its permanence. It is kind of funny – I’m constitutionally conservative. I’m a numbers . . . → Read More: A Strange Lack of Boldness… Full Text It is not really fair to make fun of the disciples. We are at a great advantage. We know the full story and we have the Spirit. (Yes, Pentecost means something). And I’m sure I’m bulldozing over huge cultural difference, but I just kinda think that human nature never changes. . . . → Read More: Where’s the leader? Most organizations or institutions do not make changes until they just stop functioning. Somewhere in a vague past the complexity and size that an institution had built up actually helped. Then it stops. But the institution can’t even think about operating in another way. That is the way we’ve always done things . . . → Read More: A Virtue of a Necessity  Comments are closed  Church Direction, Culture  catholics, change, identity, institutions, leadership, organizations, schools, Truth This story was the original. This is a letter to the WSJ concerning it. It is a great mutt & Jeff or odd couple story. A military chaplain who “preaches about divine protection…rejects evolution and believes the earth to be 6000 years old. He carries a large KJV bible with him into a combat . . . → Read More: A Chaplain and and Atheist go… Comments are closed cross, Culture, Meditation, Word chaplains, leadership, military, proof, resurection Wondering what to do? . . . → Read More: 3 minutes that can frame your next step Text: 1 Cor 9:1-15 In the wake of Pope Benedict’s appeal to Anglicans, a reading on Apostolic authority comes up in the 2 yr reading cycle. Paul was always defending his apostleship. People were always questioning his right to authority. His responses could be read as whining in the best Jewish mother sort of . . . → Read More: A question of authority… |
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