VIBRANT ArticleS

Is Your Church Running at the Speed of Apple?

Andrew Root’s book The Congregation in a Secular Age takes us on a journey in time – or, more accurately, who tells time. The Church as Time Keeper In the Middle Ages, the church was the timekeeper. The church defined the rhythms of life,…

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What are You Learning?

May 4, 2022
What am I learning? This simple but complex question is one that I ask myself a lot. It began as a way of reframing hard situations, a way of calming

The Myth of Authenticity

April 22, 2022
One of the struggles of our secular age as people experience it is the myth of authenticity. What I mean by this is this overwhelming burden to be singular and

7 church conversations to listen for

April 19, 2022
Every congregation has conversations going. These conversations happen in council rooms, committee meetings, small groups, coffee after worship (covid permitting!), and many other places. When you listen to or take

How to Handle Pastoral Burnout in a Covid-Plus World

April 15, 2022
This morning, a friend emailed me a message that he’s repeated often in the past two years: “Again and again, we see that the COVID experience has revealed underlying fault

Gollum Has Some Part to Play in It

March 30, 2022
Photo Unsplash Kris Vos Pastor Sunlight Community Church & The Center for Church Renewal Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on

Always Winter: Where is Aslan Part 2

March 22, 2022
Photo Unsplash Lucy’s brothers and sisters don’t believe her story about Mr. Tumnus and the land of Narnia. They accuse her of making it all up until one day when

Always Winter – Where is Aslan? Part 1

March 15, 2022
Photo Unsplash Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy burst onto the scene 1000 Narnian years after the creation of Narnia. One hundred years earlier, the tree that kept Jadis (the White

Always Winter – But the King is Coming

March 8, 2022
Photo: Unsplash Peter, Susan, and Lucy are with Mr. and Mrs. Beaver (Edmund is gone to find the White Witch). Mr. Beaver announces that Aslan is on the move, prompting

Always Winter—Preaching to Ourselves

March 3, 2022
Photo Unsplash Lucy believes she has hidden away in a wardrobe. She has actually stepped through a door into the wonder-filled land of Narnia. Wandering in the winter, she encounters