Imaginative Risk Taking In Canadian Congregations
Our Flourishing Congregations Institute research team—based at Ambrose University in Calgary, Alberta—spent April to June 2016...
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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,...
“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...
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...
The Attributes of Strong Leadership & Tilling the Soil
Jim Collins writes that it’s not just good leadership that moves organizations or communities toward excellence, but “Level Five...
“Thinking One Can”: Believing Your Congregation Can Flourish
Do you remember the children’s book The Little Engine that Could? The story was first published over 100 years ago in a curriculum for...
Flourishing. Really?
At the outset of this research project we delineated five traits from existing literature on flourishing congregations: clear...
Space and Place Speak
In our first blog, Dr. Joel Thiessen outlined five aspects of flourishing congregations that will inform much of what we do together over...
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