Last week members of our congregation met with volunteer leaders of a Freezing Nights program in our community. Each night during the winter that the temperature dips below 35 degrees, volunteers will staff a downtown church and open it up for homeless individuals to have a warm place to sleep. The program provides [...]
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that darn Will Campbell
Posted in church, homelessness, hospitality on 13 November 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Hope for mainline churches?
Posted in church, hospitality, spiritual practices on 8 November 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I’m part of a clergy discussion group that’s reading Diana Butler Bass’ new book, Christianity for the Rest of Us. The book comes out of her three-year research into the practices of vital mainline U.S. congregations.
Bass argues that there are 10 common themes that run through the lives of these congregations, she calls them [...]
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