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What follows is a collection of (speculative) thoughts, ideas, and questions from a novice church planter about church planting and evangelism My college principal (and friend), Gary Millar, caused a bit of a stir on social media with this post asking...

The decline in the active membership of the Church of England as a whole in the last quarter of the 20th century was mirrored and exaggerated in London. Many of the congregations were ageing and found it difficult to engage the young people who were...

Healthy things grow and multiply. It’s a fact in the natural world, but it’s also a fact when it comes to churches. Many church leaders want their churches to grow but they feel stuck. In fact, your church may have plateaued or be in decline while you...

Woodlawn is rising again … though the challenges, like gravity, seem never to go away. Its comeback slowed by the Great Recession, its people saddened by the death of a beloved leader, the storied South Side neighborhood is rallying around an ambitious...

No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey (this is a book for workers but there is a lot we can draw from it) My interest, borne out by the empirical cases that follow, is in understanding the power structures of ordinary...