Déjà Vu All Over Again An address delivered to the Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas By George Sumner A month and a half ago, on a Zoom meeting of the House of Bishops, the demographic news about our churc... Read More...
Return of the Exiles: A How-to Guide for Restoring Faithfulness to Mainline Churches By Jake Dell Is Generation Z destined to restore the mainline Protestant church to biblical faithfulness? Many of them think so, thanks to one Redeemed Zoomer, a popular YouTube personality with over 115,... Read More...
The Asbury Revival By Ryan N. Danker On February 8, after what had been a regularly scheduled chapel service at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, something unexpected took place: the students didn’t want to leave the chapel. They wanted to stay and to pray. What ensued ... Read More...
Praying for Renewal in Kentucky’s Holy Land By Mark Michael You can spot them easily on maps of nationwide religious membership, three Catholic counties in central Kentucky, amid a sea of evangelicals. Rural Nelson, Marion, and Washington counties are... Read More...
A Social-Transcendental Argument By George Sumner This year marks the 30th anniversary of Reclaiming Faith, a work that Ephraim Radner and I edited to bring the lens of the theological tradition to bear on the travail of the Episcopal Churc... Read More...
Facing Episcopal Church Decline After COVID By David Goodhew The Episcopal Church has been in decline for some years. So what is the impact of COVID? New data for 2021 has just been released and, together with other research, it enables us to begin to answer that question. What Has Happened? The ne... Read More...
Casting the Net on the Other Side: Post-COVID Church Renewal By Jonathan Turtle The Diocese of Toronto took its theme for synod this year from the Gospel According to St. John: “Cast the net” (21:6). It is a wonderful passage of Scripture to reflect on as a diocese. I... Read More...
Finding Life Through Death: An Encouragement By Kristine Blaess Back in 2011, I was serving a small church in rural Idaho. We were two years into the 2009 recession with no end in sight in our small corner of the world. Our financial pledgers were reti... Read More...