Thriving Campus Ministries Make New Disciples One of the issues with creating successful campus ministry is that, unlike in evangelical churches, there’s much less guidance available for Episcopal campus chaplains. “I wish I had the training to have a strategy,” said the Rev. Mary Catherine Young, associate rector of campus
How Did We Get Here? Where 70 Years of Church Growth Took Us …somewhere in the middle of the growth, a question started following me around that I did not have the courage to say out loud. Are we making disciples? Or are we making church attenders who need us
The Unfinished Calling: How Older Believers Are a Gift to the Church “The Unfinished Calling” is a challenge to adults of all ages to commit themselves to nurture the next generation of disciples in the church. Also See: The Unfinished Calling – An 8-Part Series by Rev. Joe Novenson Thinking
Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows. This Sunday is the First Sunday after Trinity. Trinitytide, the season of the Church Year in which it falls, begins at sunset on Saturday, May 30, 2026, the first eve of Trinity Sunday, and lasts until sunset on Saturday, November 28, 2026, the eve
How Evangelism Ministries Have Changed in Churches in 30 Years Jess and Thom begin with a simple observation: most churches still believe in evangelism—but far fewer are organized around it the way they once were. Programs that were once central have faded, and new approaches have emerged, often without the
Welcome to Thursday Evenings at All Hallows. In the Anglican and Methodist traditions, the week after Whit Sunday, the Day of Pentecost, is known as Whitsuntide. It is devoted to the celebration of the gift and work of the Holy Spirit. It also contains the three summer Ember Days (Wednesday,
The Challenge of Eastern Orthodoxy: Comparing Evangelical and Eastern Orthodox Theology The Eastern Orthodox Church has held an allure among Evangelical Protestant Christians for some time and continues to do so to the present day. In 1990 the Evangelical world was stunned when Frank Schaeffer, the son of the well-known
Episcopal Mission of Franklin, New Hampshire When Churches Start Thinking Beyond Mere Possibility Most churches do not lose faith overnight. They simply begin to think differently. Over time, conversations shift from What can God do? to What can we realistically expect? It sounds reasonable. It even sounds responsible. But that