Join us in Guerry Auditorium
or register for the livestream below.
The lecture series will begin at 9 a.m. followed by afternoon sessions at 1:30 and 3 p.m. Central Time.
This lecture series is free and open to the public.
All are encouraged to attend. Join us!
It’s now nearly universally agreed-upon that church needs to change. Many believe local congregations need to find new models, new funding routes, new ways of connecting with neighbors, and overall new visions for their future. Innovation has become a hot conception inside this agreed upon need for change. But the more congregations recognize their need for change, the harder change becomes to implement—or change itself opens the congregation to issues and problems it didn’t anticipate.
To call the congregation to change, if not approached very carefully, hooks the congregation to the accelerating ways of late modernity, risking fatigue, burnout, and further loss of transcendence. This lecture series names these realities so clergy might avoid these common traps, and instead live into a richer conception of the church and congregation. We’ll turn instead to a more life-giving approach to the need for change that’s before us.