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How to Respond to #churchtoo #metoo

This tweet of mine has garnered the most attention out of nearly 9000 tweets. Sexual abuse is not covered by pastoral confidentiality. // The night my church plant launched someone came in mid-service & confessed to sex crimes. I never once thought he had confidentiality. He left in a police truck. It’s black & white. […]

Book Update: Adventures to Save the Dying Church

I finished the manuscript of my second book last Summer, and started the process of finding specific publishers. This book will sit at around 200+ pages and deals with innovating the church to thrive in a post-Christian world. There are not very many books that talk about translating the contemporary church into a new culture. […]

Top Posts of 2017

Can’t believe another year has past, blah blah blah. Here are my top posts by visits from the past 365 days. Onward to 2018! 10 Questions to Ask Before Embarking on Short Term Mission Work Where’s the Depth in Christian Worship? 5 Problems & 6 ideas for deeper Why Big Churches in Canada May Hit […]

Part 7: Ending Racism in the Church – Leadership Guide First Steps

This is the final post that concludes a seven part series on racism in the church. The purpose of the series was to alert, and then inform, white church leaders on how to engage racism in their communities. In this final segment, I explore some coherent steps forward in the process of righting the systemic […]

Part 7: Ending Racism in the Church – Leadership Approach with First Steps

This is the final post that concludes a seven part series on racism in the church. The purpose of the series was to alert, and then inform, white church leaders on how to engage racism in their communities. In this final segment, I explore some coherent steps forward in the process of righting the systemic […]

Evangelicalism is dead and can’t be saved

Early this year I asked the question, what will replace evangelicalism. I think evangelicalism the movement is dead (or approaching death) because the brand has been catastrophically destroyed. I am connecting labels and brands because outsiders consider them interchangeable. The damage happened as the media conflated ‘white evangelicalism’ with everything ‘white Republicans’ represent, then passing […]

Part 6: Now I Get It. Visible Minorities Waking to Racism in the Church – #changethestory

Welcome to Part 6 of my series of racism in the church. This edition is to all, but I narrow some questions to visible minorities. You can read the entire blog series following the links below. In this edition, more on the discovery of systemic racism underlying contemporary churches, and how visible minorities have handled […]

Part 5 – Racism and the Church: The Light is Winning

PART 1: #CHANGETHESTORY – THE PROBLEM OF RACISM IN THE CHURCH PART 2: A CONVERSATION ON RACISM #CHANGETHESTORY PART 3: YOUR RACIST CHURCH – MULTI ETHNIC & WHITE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES PART 4: RACISM AND YOU – REVERSE RACISM, ALL LIVES MATTER, JUST GET OVER IT   A first step to confront racism is to listen. […]

The Church That Only Non-Christians Call Home

The recent church plant I co-planted called Cypher Church, is nearing the one-year anniversary mark. Long story short, the ride thus far has been incredible. We’re talking early church kind of incredible! Our first service last February was an Spirit encounter that I’ll never forget. People were being healed, coming to faith, and going to […]

Losing millennials? We have bigger problems now

I haven’t heard much about millennials lately. Bloggers used to be all over the subject, trying to dissect culture to appeal to senior pastors clamouring for answers to fill the generational loss in their churches. Maybe it’s because publishers don’t think it’s a hot topic anymore, so there are fewer books on the subject. It’s […]