by social@thebtscenter.org | Mar 4, 2016 | 21stCenturyMinistry, Bearings Review 2016
I remember the words so clearly: “I know what it’s like to have my body broken, I know what it’s like to have my blood spilt. I won’t celebrate anyone else’s broken body or spilt blood, and I don’t want anyone doing that on my behalf.” Sitting in the pew next to me,...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Oct 7, 2015 | 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, ChurchChange
I spend a curious amount of time discussing, studying, and writing about polity—the structures and procedures of congregational/denominational governance. As other theologians and sociologists of religion speculate about the decline, revival, or re-emergence of...