If not Sunday worship, then what?
As Sunday morning loses its hold on churchgoers and potential churchgoers, what comes next? How do faith communities nurture relationships? How do..
Tom Ehrich is a writer, church consultant and Episcopal priest based in New York. He is the author of “Just Wondering, Jesus” and founder of the Church Wellness Project. His website is www.morningwalkmedia.com. Follow Tom on Twitter @tomehrich.
As Sunday morning loses its hold on churchgoers and potential churchgoers, what comes next? How do faith communities nurture relationships? How do..
It is time for congregations to develop protocols for responding to hate initiatives on their doorsteps. As the intolerant lose any..
The final stage of an effective membership recruitment process happens when the constituent actually affiliates with your congregation. For some that will..
Until the day your congregants get biblical about tithing, your stewardship efforts will depend mostly on membership development. Grow your congregation and..
While my wife browsed T.J. Maxx for trousers, I sat on a curb outside and observed people going in and out of..
"We're stuck, aren't we?" asked several participants in a recent church workshop. Yes, they are stuck. So are many churches – and..
I had a stark revelation in February as I drove across the Mojave Desert on day three of “Fresh Day on the..
Effective leadership has three requirements: A compelling vision (where we want to get); Incremental steps (what we will do next to get there);..
I see stirrings of annual church stewardship pro- grams: pledge cards in the mail, appeals in writing and from the pulpit, maybe..
Many factors determine a congregation's health – from quality of leadership to clarity of mission to location to financial strength. No factor,..
For many years, churches used the language of “belonging.” Now we find ourselves in a world where “belonging” has changed and, for..
I figure 1957 was the high-water mark of mainline Protestantism in the U.S. Although mainline churches kept growing until 1965, it..
(RNS) Once the first person in America died from Ebola, the usual bigots and ideologues blamed it on President Obama, whom they loathe...
Church leaders often worry that Sunday morning is the ”most segregated day of the week.” On Sunday, churchgoers gather inside congregations that..
Some church leaders call it a “challenge budget,” others a “faith budget.” I call it a bad idea. Faced with a gap..
(RNS) Left to their own devices, residents and officials of Ferguson, Mo., probably could have sorted out the shooting of an unarmed..
As I contemplate moving my home and office to a rural area of upstate New York, I worry about being isolated and..
From time to time, traumatic events in society require the congregation to make response. Recent shootings at University of California Santa Barbara..
Church development is about many things — best practices, capable leadership, listening to the world — but the most difficult to grasp,..
When I started traveling to Europe on business in 1999, airplanes looked and behaved more or less the same as they do..
I got a whole new look at my neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan the other day. It was around 4 p.m...
By Tom Ehrich (RNS) Conservative Christians are claiming that their religious freedom requires free rein for legalized discrimination. That’s a clever argument...
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