Shareholders or Stakeholders?
When a church takes its stakeholders seriously – and not just its shareholders – the circle of ministry grows and becomes stronger. Real...
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THRIVE OR SURVIVE: FAITH COMMUNITIES IN CANADA
Are you experiencing seismic shifts within and around your Church? Are you seeing new ideas, energy, and connections emerge unexpectedly?...
New Website (and other good stuff)!
We are excited to unveil our new website - www.flourishingcongregations.org - an ongoing work in progress, as we develop as an Institute....
Imaginative Risk Taking In Canadian Congregations
Our Flourishing Congregations Institute research team—based at Ambrose University in Calgary, Alberta—spent April to June 2016...
New Book Released! Flourishing Congregations in Canada
Greetings on behalf of the Flourishing Congregations Institute at Ambrose University in Calgary, Alberta! Some of you participated in our...
The Preaching Tag-Team Challenge
Do you long to see teens and young adults more solidly connected to your church? Are you a preacher or do you belong to a church that has...
The Adaptive Church: Lessons from Evolution
Whatever you may think of evolution and its place in a Christian understanding of creation, the science is clear that DNA does evolve and...
Clarifying Our Way Towards Flourishing
I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was about 14 years old when I experienced my first earthquake. It happened in Montreal, QC,...
How Must Pastors Flourish for their Congregations to Flourish?
One afternoon I sat in the dean’s office of a Canadian seminary. He excitedly said to me, “Roger, I have a new book for you to read....
What is Truth? (Hint: It’s more than Statistics)
In 1963 the Anglican Church of Canada commissioned the prominent, pithy journalist Pierre Berton to tell them, from an outsider’s...
Lost in a Crowd?
Lakewood Church in Houston, TX. Photo by Amber Case. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic...
Canada’s Catholics: A Flourishing Church in Need of Flourishing Parishes
Catholics are readily Canada’s largest religious group, numbering some 13 million people. That works out to about 40% of the Canadian...
“Can You Imagine A Church Where….”
I don’t know about you but sometimes I forget why I got into this in the first place. Sometimes I find I can lose my way and get focused...
Are we embarrassed? The Under Use of Marketing in Congregations
Congregations undoubtedly do amazing work. We have health services, food banks, children’s programming, leadership development, summer...
Weak Leaders make Weak Churches?
“I don’t know why anyone would come to our church.” The pastor’s voice faltered as he tried to control his emotions. “The music is...
A Recipe for Church Growth
Photo: Courtesy of Elmdon Church, Solihul, UK As a boy in the 1970s I often accompanied my grandmother to her neighborhood United Church...
Preliminary Findings: Phase 1 Research
On Saturday, November 26, 2016 the Flourishing Congregations Institute at Ambrose University formally launched. We were joined by...
Confessions of a Church Drifter
I sat at the table in Starbucks across from Tara. From the start, I knew I was not in a welcoming conversation when she refused to order...
Church: Where exactly can it flourish?
Are pews and steeples necessary for God’s people? In 2014, I was fortunate to be able to attend the Greenbelt festival in Cheltenham...
The Church in Exile
The experience of living in a Post-Christian culture is settling in as a reality for the contemporary North American church. The ongoing...
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