Christmas weekend, a commercial invitation for Community of Christ will be airing on local TV stations in the greater Kansas City area. It is being aired by three mission centers: Central Mission, Midlands Mission Center, and Far West. The commercials were created by a team including Tom Cochran, Brady Cackler, and Bryce Veazey. The commercial advertises [...]
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A Real Gift: Community of Christ Commercials
December 24, 2011Diverse Voices: Measuring the Potential for Non-Americans to Express their Views at World Conference
June 25, 2011In a variety of previous posts I have reflected on the implications of the Community of Christ’s decline in its traditional geographic ‘core’ of the American Midwest, and growth in the ‘periphery’ of Latin America, Africa and Asia. I have also reflect on the ways people express discontent in the church, using the economic model of “Exit, [...]
Church History Sunday (Month #1)
February 2, 2011I’ve begun teaching adult Sunday School once a month at my congregation in downtown Toronto. The other three weeks, we’re going through the Enduring Principles, but my week is “Church History Sunday.” I’m working without a manual, but I’m planning to write out what I do and post it here as a resource for anyone [...]
What is the future of the Community of Christ in a North American post-RLDS perspective?
November 18, 2010I just published a long-ish blog post that responds to the question, “What is the future of the Community of Christ in a North American post-RLDS perspective?” The post focuses on questions of Community of Christ identity in light of its North American heritage. I share the link here to invite reactions and comments to [...]
Sticks and Stones and … Compliments?
August 19, 2010Several years ago when my congregation attempted to join the local ministerial alliance (in a town right next door to Independence, Missouri), I was met by a coalition of fundamentalist and evangelical pastors intent on keeping out the (then) RLDS Church. Their reasoning ranged from claims we were “non-Christian” all the way to “not Christian [...]
Blogging about Blogs
August 1, 2010Blogs are everywhere now, and the number of people who have their own personal blog grows constantly. Its only logical that the subject matter on blogs should by now cover virtually every topic imaginable. Search any imaginable term in Google Blogs, or your search engine of preference, and undoubtedly someone’s blog will come up talking [...]
“I would present to you, my brethren, Joseph Smith”
April 6, 2010In traveling to Amboy, Illinois 6 April 1860, Joseph III shared these words (150 years ago today) with the gathered conference preceeding consideration of him to the prophetic office: I would say to you, brethren, as I hope you may be, and in faith I trust you are, as a people that God has promised [...]
Summarizing the Church: Then and Now
March 26, 2010David Howlett, Barb Walden, and I have spent a lot of time in the past few months getting a new, 72-page, full-color illustrated history of the church ready in time for World Conference. (I’ve previously blogged about it and shared pictures of some of the mockups here.) I have the first printer’s proof in my [...]
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