This post will focus on the third and last of our “sins” of the mainline: pastoral care as a membership privilege. Previous posts in this series focussed on the sins of “relevant” preaching and “accessible” liturgy.
Continue reading →In this post we take a look at the second of our “sins” of the mainline church, the sin of “accessible” liturgy. A previous post examined the sin of “relevant” preaching, and a subsequent post will consider pastoral care as … Continue reading →
This post will explore the first of what I have called three “sins” of the contemporary mainline church: relevant preaching. Subsequent posts will explore accessible liturgy, and pastoral care as a membership privilege.
Continue reading →As we come to the end of the liturgical year I looked back at the sermon I preached three years ago.
Continue reading →In this next series I’m going to take on what I think of as three of the major “sins” of the contemporary mainline church: relevant preaching, accessible liturgy, and pastoral care as a privilege of membership. You may be surprised … Continue reading →
In this series of posts I’ve been exploring the mainline church’s focus on Sunday worship gatherings as the primary—or even sole—expression of what church is about. I’ve been taking issue with that perspective and now I want to turn to … Continue reading →
As our long season of Coronatide rolls on without any sign of abating—and in fact is steadily worsening in most areas—perhaps it is time to reconsider our focus on Sunday worship gatherings. As I noted in the previous post Sunday … Continue reading →
In my previous post I described the current challenge faced by congregational leaders: How to hold our faith communities together when we can no longer get together? The absence of Sunday gatherings has been difficult for leaders who have invested … Continue reading →
A couple of conversations this week got me thinking about the ways congregational leaders are responding to the challenge of keeping church going through the ever-lengthening Covid crisis. We are familiar with the talk of shifting from a sprint to … Continue reading →
A sermon preached by the Rev. Jeff Seaton, August 16, 2020 I speak to you in the name of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. This week’s gospel story is a story that is often considered to be … Continue reading →
