​Intergenerational Ministry in the Weird World of COVID-19 Cory Seibel, PhD, is a pastor at Central Baptist Church in Edmonton, Alberta L...

​Congregational Responses to Inequality in a Time of Unrest Derek Cook is Director, Canadian Poverty Institute at Ambrose University Over...

​Is Your Church Truly Anti-Racist? Dr. Monetta Bailey is Associate Professor of Sociology at Ambrose University May 6 2020, the world saw...

​Flourishing in the Fallow Kathleen Steeves PhD is Sessional Faculty, Social Psychology, McMaster University The makeshift office space I...

​The Truth about Flourishing Congregations Regardless of COVID-19 Dr. Joel Thiessen, Professor of Sociology, Director of the Flourishing ...

Flourishing in the New Normal Dr. Bill McAlpine, Retired Professor Emeritus, Ambrose University There have been at least three world even...

Ignoring Jesus for 2000 Years: Why Our Preaching Practices Need to Change David M. Csinos, Assistant Professor of Practical Theology, Atl...

How Do Canadian Protestant Churches Evaluate Ministry “Success”? Heather Card is the President of Five Smooth Stones Consulting. She is c...

SPIRITUAL RENEWAL OF LEADERS AND FLOURISHING CHURCHES Dr. Roger Helland serves as district minister of the Baptist General Conference in ...

Demographic, cultural changes key to declining church membership: Sociologist of religion (Featuring Dr. Joel Thiessen) BY MATT GARDNER S...

Providing Adaptive Leadership In addition to promoting the emotional health of the congregation, leaders must provide and promote adaptiv...

Current Musings Dr. Keith Walker is Professor of Educational Administration and Leadership at the University of Saskatchewan where, with ...

Current Musings Collaboration seems to be emerging as one of several current buzz words/concepts that is gaining currency. I am seeing th...

Current Musings Do smaller congregations and larger parishes have anything in common in respect to taking care of one another, having a s...

Current Musings Have you ever considered how a person’s social location and demographic traits shape their perception and experience of c...

Current Musings I’ve been pondering whether or not George Bernard Shaw was overstating things when he said, “those who cannot change thei...

Current Musings In another research project that I’m working on that is looking at the relationship between science and faith, a recent s...

Congregations and Neighbouring Dr. Joel Thiessen, Professor of Sociology, Director of the Flourishing Congregations Institute Would your ...

Current Musings Last week a colleague sent me an article on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, as a follow up to a rather vigorous dialogue we’d ...

Current Musings So far, we have had over 4,000 congregants fill out our church/parish national survey. I have started to analyze some of ...