Guidelines for Use
admin on December 28th, 2009
We have designed this blog to serve as both
A genuine roundtable where congregational leaders, both laity and clergy, can engage in conversation about the most significant issues facing today’s communities of faith, AND
A respectful space where topics of common interest are addressed in ways that honor and make welcome a genuine diversity of opinions and points of view, and especially the persons and groups who hold them.
The ideas, opinions, perspectives and enthusiasms expressed here are not those of The Alban Institute, unless explicitly stated by an official representative of the hosting organization.
Mr. Standish’s article on the dynamism necessary for worship might be summed up in the thought, “If the experience of worship today has not changed you, you have not worshipped.” Many congregations consist in large part of members for whom change is more threatening than any incarnation of the devil. Change need not be huge, but unless I am not quite the same guy or gal who walked into the sanctuary an hour or so ago, I have probably been wasting that hour.
Joel Tibbetts