Defining experience of 2010 #4: Becoming our grandmother’s Church (with Geoffrey Wainwright, Rickie Moore, and Jacqui Smith)
I’ve never been fond of the trite “new church” language of “We are not your grandmother’s church.” I can be charitable enough to understand the sentiment–it’s often a way of saying we have a culture and style that will be outside your expectations of institutional religion. But even given that, I hate the phrase–it is [...] »