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April 07, 2009
When Higher Education Hurts
While seminaries across the nation struggle with serious financial crises, a handful of theological schools are literally going the extra mile to reach new would-be ministers—via the Internet.
In an effort to improve already sagging enrollments, Gordon-Conwell and at least four other evangelical seminaries will offer Web-based preaching classes this fall as a part of expanding their reach into the homes of future pastors. The pilot program allows students to preach entire sermons to a webcam and receive feedback from teachers and fellow students they may never meet in person.
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The Church's Tech Tension
QUOTE: “It's a constant tension between trying to use communication tools that actually penetrate people's consciousness. The church has to have technology, or at least youth workers have to have some level ...
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Pick a Church, Any Church
Most churches have outreach programs to draw potential new members into their own doors. In Collinsville, Ill., pastors are taking a big-picture approach and telling town residents it doesn't matter where they go to church—just go.
As part of an Easter outreach program dubbed “Pick a Church, Any Church," all but three congregations in the St. Louis suburb of 25,000 people hung fliers on doors to get residents in church on Easter Sunday.
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Can We Be Less Christian?
QUOTE: “While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good ...
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Blake Joins Faith-Based Council
The leader of the nation's largest Pentecostal denomination has been named to the White House Office for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Bishop Charles E. Blake, leader of the 6 million-member Church of God in Christ, was appointed to a one-year term ...
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