With recent studies suggesting that Generation Z - also known as 'Zoomers' - are starting to turn to Christianity in staggering numbers, particularly young men, it might be worth looking at why this might be on a personal level. Young men have been embracing the church, particularly the Catholic Church. One example of this phenomenon is Connor Tomlinson, a conservative activist and broadcaster who describes himself as a “Reactionary Catholic Zoomer”.
Related: German churches lost over a million followers last year, 'nones' now the largest groupRev. William Barber arrested in Capitol Rotunda after praying against Republican-led budget
While arrests of protesters at the Capitol is not unusual, the response to Barber’s prayer was unusually dramatic: After issuing verbal warnings, dozens of officers expelled everyone in the Rotunda — including credentialed press.
Related: William Barber arrested for praying in Capitol Rotunda‘Climate Kitchen’ Serves Creation Care Insights
On April 24, three months after the deadly Eaton and Palisades fires that claimed the lives of 29 people and damaged thousands of structures across Southern California, the Diocese of Los Angeles held the first webinar in a new series focused on the environment. “Climate Kitchen is intended to be a welcoming space for conversation around all that is going on in the Los Angeles diocese to act on climate,” Kate Varley Alonso, who hosted the webinar, told TLC. It was scheduled just in time to honor Earth Day, celebrated globally on April 22.
Related: Grasslands Network, the first Episcopal eco-region, hosts event in Kansas for people to learn about, reflect on environmental issuesThe Article You Don’t Want to Read
The one thing that every human being must face is their own mortality.
Virtues Can Be Taught
"Manners makyth man" is not the quaint slogan of a historic dinner-dance club. It is the motto of Winchester College, one of the oldest and still one of the very best Church schools in the world. Bishop William of Wykeham (1320-1404), the honored founder of Winchester in 1382, understood that the end or first purpose of education is nothing less and nothing more than the formation of Virtue. He thus prescribed the motto to remind his 70 young scholars that we human beings do what we are and we are what we do....
Bivocational Pastors Find Personal Purpose, Congregational Benefits
Many churches are choosing to have bivocational pastors, as leaders and congregations work to steward their resources.
Related:Creatively Bivocational: Think Local, Lucrative, Low Bar to EntryThe Mystery of ‘The Call’
Throughout the history of the Church, I’m not sure if there has been a term more detrimental to the completion of the Great Commission than the phrase ‘the call.’ The confusion surrounding this term and the hesitancy of thousands of potential gospel workers to move forward without a clear ‘call’ is tragic. How this term came to have such power in the realm of missions is hard to say, but there is no doubt about its effect on many people’s minds.
A Small Church Is Still Part of the Big Mission
Don’t let the size of the mission overwhelm your church or distract you from it. The source of the mission is found in Christ alone.
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