The Beloit College Mindset list
Beloit College has just released its annual list describing the mindset of students about to enter college, most of whom were born in 1989.
Each August for the past decade, as faculty prepare
Darryl Dash
I'm a grateful husband, father, oupa, and pastor of Grace Fellowship Church East Toronto. I love learning, writing, and encouraging. I'm on a lifelong quest to become a humble, gracious old man.
Good homiletics does not always lead to good preaching
in his excellent book Preaching for Revitalization, Michael F. Ross describes a shift in literature on preaching. Prior to the twentieth century, books did not indicate that preaching was in decline or a
I am a closet liturgist
This morning we attended St. Paul’s Anglican Church in downtown Toronto. We picked the 9:30 family service, which is held in a corner of the huge sanctuary and feels surprisingly intimate.
The leadership that we need
Ron Heifetz describes the leadership we usually look for, compared to the leadership we really need, in Leadership Without Easy Answers:
In a crisis we tend to look for the wrong kind of
The church’s attempt to satisfy individual appetites
This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”
From Church Transformation:
The problem is not whether or not a church has a dynamic preacher, a worship band, or liturgy. The problem is