Archive for the ‘Congregations’ category

A Real Gift: Community of Christ Commercials

December 24, 2011

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 [...]

Sticks and Stones and … Compliments?

August 19, 2010

Several 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 [...]

Reminder: Plan to Attend Restoration Studies

April 7, 2010

The third annual Restoration Studies Symposium (Sunstone Midwest) kicks off tomorrow (Thursday) night with the third annual Wallace B. Smith Lecture, presented by Don H. Compier, Dean of the Community of Christ Seminary. Dr. Compier will address the symposium’s theme by discussing: “Who is a Christian? The Perspective of Ecumenical Christianity.” The lecture begins at [...]

CofConomics: Congregation Size and the Theory of the Firm

August 29, 2009

Scholarly study of the Community of Christ has tended to focus on its history and theology. These are clearly important, but there gaps in Community of Christ studies that could be productively filled with reference to insight from the social sciences, like economics, political science, sociology, anthropology and social psychology. In this post, I want [...]


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