Articles

Article Where Now Is Our Authority?
- By Phyllis Tickle
- Posted on November 15th, 2011
Drawn from Tickle's essay appearing in the Participant's Guide to Embracing Emergence Christianity by Tim Scorer As we approach any discussion of the peri-Emergence, we note…
Article Integrating Children Into Worship
- By Rick Quinn
- Posted on November 15th, 2011
How do we help prepare children for the experience of worship? Should they have their own form of church until they are "ready for big church" (which usually means ready to be…
Article Worship and Liturgy
- By John O. Gooch
- Posted on November 14th, 2011
“We don’t want a fixed order or any liturgy, not even a bulletin. That locks us in to the same order all the time. We just want to worship.” That was a village…
Article Money for Missions: Project Ideas
- By Raney K. Good
- Posted on November 14th, 2011
0ne evening at dinner Jack listened as his mother and father talked about a mission trip to Haiti that a group of adults from his church were planning. Although Jack's parents…
Article The Seductions of Leadership
- By Robert A. Ratcliff
- Posted on November 14th, 2011
The church needs leaders. The church needs good leaders. The church needs leaders who will make other leaders. Smarter people than me have written a lot (a lot) about that…
Article What the Animals Made Known (Children's skit)
- By Judy Gattis Smith
- Posted on November 13th, 2011
This short skit can be planned with minimal prep time. The Narrator speaks the words in brackets [ ]. Narrator: Once upon a time there was a little bird-a lonely little bird-a…