As we cross the threshold of a rapidly shifting global landscape, the Church must prepare itself for tectonic changes that will redefine its mission, methods, and missiology. We are living in a kairos ...

A decade ago, Hope Lutheran pioneered a model of ministry by having one congregation at two locations. The church's leaders never expected it to catch on as well as it has. Not only have membership ...

(RNS) — Many American congregations tend to focus on traditional families, recollecting a mid-20th-century model for church growth or else simply as a model of what a Christian life should be. (RNS) — ...

Throughout the various stages of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, several church leaders have referred to a new model of church that includes basic ecclesial communities. But what exactly are those ...

Vol. 47, No. 3, Special Issue: Paradigm Lost? The Josephan v. Trans-Volga Elders Question in Flux (Mar 2021), pp. 195-200 (6 pages) The historiography of sixteenth-century Church parties may have ...