We deconstructed Sunday School at All Saints this year and tripled our attendance! We did more than that – we eliminated Sunday School altogether and moved our early Mass to 9:00 a.m. giving us exactly 30 minutes to get ready for the 10:30 a.m. mass. But we have not eliminated Christian Education because we moved [...]
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DECONSTRUCTED SUNDAY SCHOOL
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SHELTER FROM THE STORM
I spent several years in a psychiatric hospital as a chaplain. There was a nurse there, Irish and Roman Catholic, whom I’ll never forget. She was somewhere between my generation and my parents’ generation. Frieda used to kid around with me, lecturing me all the time on the big mistake that England made by, in [...]
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HOW GOD MAKES CHRISTIANS II.1
A THEOLOGY OF HORTICULTURE I.I We are all born as branches upon the same Vine, Adam, the father of us all, who disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden. The Bible says that when Adam disobeyed God he died spiritually, he was deprived of the supernatural grace of God in the person of the Holy [...]
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Liturgical Piety II
Prayer as Athletics In basketball season we get excited over our favorite university. The colors come out, we “Google” the schedule and our collective blood pressure goes up – things get very personal. One basketball coach refers to his school’s student body as the team’s sixth player. But the fact of the matter is [...]
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