Reflections from Rick Lord on Leadership, Transformation, and Things That Keep Human Life Distinctively Human
The Reverend Dr. Frederick W. Schmidt, Jr. Director of Spiritual Formation and Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Southern Methodist University, Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, Texas offers three positive qualities about evangelicanism today. What do Evangelicals have that we (Progressive, Mainliners) don’t have—other than larger churches, larger seminaries, bigger attendance on Sunday, more serious [...]
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The Pew Research Center has posted a new series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial generation. From the overview: By some key measures, Americans ages 18 to 29 are considerably less religious than older Americans. Fewer young adults belong to any particular faith [...]
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Three news stories in recent days point to significant change in the landscape of North American religion. For decades now, the conventional wisdom about church growth has been that only conservative churches–those that take the Bible literally and embrace conservative politics–could grow. But it appears that conventional wisdom is being seriously questioned. Take a look [...]
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From the Executive Summary: Americans change religious affiliation early and often. In total, about half of American adults have changed religious affiliation at least once during their lives. Most people who change their religion leave their childhood faith before age 24, and many of those who change religion do so more than once. These are [...]
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This coming Sunday I’ll begin a series of sermons that I’m entitling “Real Faith in a Real World.” For some time I have wanted to explore the significant gap that exists between “organized religion” and “personal spirituality.” Recent research has shown that many of those outside of Christianity, especially younger adults, have little trust in [...]
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