The Story of Nazareth is Our Story
Read the inaugural sermon (pdf) to the Thriving Rural Communities initiative here at Duke Divinity School.“Nathaniel,” Philip says, “we’ve found him, we’ve found the one, the one about whom Moses and...
View Article“How Can We Get Some Young Folks In Our Church?”
Earlier this week I led a United Methodist District Lay Leadership workshop on Small and Rural Church Ministries. To begin the session, I asked each person to introduce themselves and then tell me...
View ArticleChange and the Rural Church
I. The rural church is not a body that changes quickly. This is a good and right thing. The church should be slow to change: it should take its time to discern, with the patience of the ages, between...
View ArticleHow to Introduce Change Into a Traditional Rural Church: Part One
(In a previous post, I shared a few thoughts on "Change and the Rural Church." Here I share Part I of some (hopefully) helpful and very specific thoughts on how a leader might introduce blessed change...
View ArticleHow to Introduce Sustainable Change Into a Traditional Rural Church
(In a previous post, we discussed the first steps of How to Introduce Sustainable Change into a Traditional Rural Church. After we have earned the trust of our people, instilled in them a sense of our...
View ArticleSarah Dull: Foreign
I feel the church takes to foreign "things" in the same way I take to foreign languages... I have never taken to foreign languages. Over the years I have attempted Spanish, French, German and Greek,...
View ArticleThe Tie That Binds (Part 1)
Thank God for Conflict“If a brother or sister sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If he or she listens to you, you have regained them. But if you are not...
View ArticleThe Tie That Binds (Part 2)
Thank God For Conflict“If a brother or sister sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If he or she listens to you, you have regained them. But if you are not...
View ArticleFrederick Edie
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View ArticleEllen Davis
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View ArticleEdgardo Colón-Emeric
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View ArticleMark Chaves
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View ArticleStephen B. Chapman
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View ArticleDouglas Campbell
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View ArticleAbdullah Antepli
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View ArticleJeremy Begbie
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View ArticleKevin Hart
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View ArticleAaron Griffith
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