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Mar 03 2021

Covid & Congregations: What lies ahead in 2021 (webinar)

3/17/21 (Weds) | 1:00pm-2:00pm (ET)
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Our Third-Wednesday Webinar series continues on March 17, 2021 with
“Covid and Congregations: What Lies Ahead In 2021?”

click here for our complete 2021 event schedule


We know more about Covid-19 today than we did a year ago when we went into lockdown, yet some days it seems there are still more questions than answers. We now have vaccinations, but what about variants? We seem closer now to returning to in-person worship, but haven’t we been here before? When is the other shoe going to drop? Just as important, what should we be doing in the meantime? And what should we be planning for our congregations in the days, weeks, and months ahead?

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Written by Ken Howard · Categorized: COVID-19, FaithX Blog · Tagged: Coronavirus, coronavirus impact planning report, COVID, COVID19, ken Howard, Mary Frances, social vulnerability, Steve Matthews, Take Home Resources, Webinar

Aug 27 2020

Adapting to the Covid New Normal: A Research-Based Blog Series

Introduction by Ken Howard

In some ways, it seems like we’ve spent an eternity of waiting since Covid-19 forced our congregations to close. Yet in other ways, it seems like too many things to change in too little time. Regardless of denomination or religion, it seems like a tsunami swept away all our normal ways of congregational life in a second, leaving us all to re-think, re-engineer, and rapidly iterate almost everything. It almost seems like God is making use of these “Covid Times” through which we are navigating to re-shape us as congregations, cutting off all our talking about all the ways our faith communities needed to change if they were to survive (let alone thrive), and telling us to get on with it.

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Written by Ken Howard · Categorized: COVID-19, FaithX Blog · Tagged: adaptation, blog series, community outreach, Coronavirus, covid times, COVID-19, COVID19, Darren Slade, experimentation, ken Howard, leadership development, online fellowship, pastoral care, pastoral perspective, research, research analysis, spiritual formation, stewardship, worship

Jun 08 2020

Webinar (June 17) – Reopening Church in a New Reality: Re-Visioning in a Changing Context

Reopening Church in a New Reality: Re-Visioning in a Changing Context

6/17/20 (Next Wednesday) | 1:00pm-2:00pm (ET)

Webinar Description:

Before we reopen our congregations in the wake of COVID-19, we have to get clear about the “WHY” of our congregations, so that we may adapt our ministries to the needs of our new contexts without losing our reasons for being. Come and explore with us what needs to change so the really important things can “remain the same.”

This webinar is the first in a 3-part series entitled: Reopening Church in a New Reality. The next two webinars will be:

  • 7/18/20 – Considerations for Leading a Hybrid Congregation (online and in the building)
  • 8/12/20 – Discerning Your Congregation’s Post-COVID Calling

Webinar Hosts:

  • Mary Frances, FaithX Senior Consultant (Host)
  • Steve Matthews, FaithX Senior Consultant (Co-Host)
  • Ken Howard, FaithX Principal Consultant (Co-Host)

For More Info: mary@faithx.net

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Written by Ken Howard · Categorized: COVID-19, FaithX Blog, FaithX News · Tagged: Coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, COVID19, hybrid congregation, ken Howard, Mary Frances, post-COVID, reopening, reopening church, Steve Matthews, Webinar

Nov 07 2019

FaithX Goes To Birmingham, Alabama

Next week, FaithX folk will be going to the Genesis conference on New Episcopal Communities. Aspiring church planters from dioceses around the country will be gathering, along with many of their bishops, for three days of information sharing, training, and coaching.

Ken Howard, our executive director and principal consultant, and Steve Matthews, one of FaithX’s two senior associate consultants, will be delivering plenary presentations and offering micro-coaching sessions with interested participants. Steve’s presentation is entitled, “Falling in Love with your Neighborhood” and Ken’s is entitled, “Grounding Discernment in Data: Missional Planning with MapDash for Faith Communities.”

Other topics at the conference will include: Convening and Nurturing Your Core Team, Hosting Transformative Conversations/Networking, What To Do When Things Don’t Go As Planned, Defining and Achieving Sustainability, and more.

FaithX will be offering a new consultative program, Strategic Missional Planning for Genesis Congregations, which has been customized to the needs of those church planters who will be applying for New Episcopal Communities Grants.

For more information on the New Episcopal Communities initiative, click here.

Written by Ken Howard · Categorized: FaithX Blog, Posts by Ken Howard · Tagged: Alabama, Birmingham, Falling In Love with Your Neighborhood, Genesis conference, genesis congregations, Grounding Discernment in Data, ken Howard, MapDash for Faith Communities, missional planning, New Episcopal Communities, new episcopal communities grant, Steve Matthews

Oct 31 2019

The Great Religion Singularity: Brian McLaren’s Reflections on Howard’s Research

This post on Brian McLaren’s reflections is written
by Darren M. Slade, PhD


If things continue unchanged and unchallenged, then the death of institutional Christianity is precisely what will happen. And believers won’t have to imagine it. They will be forced to live through it. 

– Brian McLaren, Author/Speaker/Activist

Editor’s Note: This article is a review of Brian McLaren’s “Conditions for the Great Religion Singularity,” which in turn is a review of Ken Howard’s research paper, “The Religion Singularity: A Demographic Crisis Destabilizing and Transforming Institutional Christianity.” We almost titled this blog post, “The Church’s Frightmare,” given the coincidence (if you believe in such things) that it would post on Halloween and the fact that the death of institutional Christianity can be a scary thing for we who are its adherents to consider. Indeed, after reading the original article, one clergy colleague quipped, “I’m so glad I’m retiring this year: this is just depressing and scary.”


You’ve heard of the “Great Schism.”

You’ve heard of the “Great Awakening.”

You’ve heard of the “Great Emergence.”

The Institutional Christianity now has entered a new era of
dramatic destabilization and deinstitutionalization…

THE GREAT RELIGION SINGULARITY

Can you imagine the death of Christianity? Can you imagine a world without the Christian Church? For many anthropologists, the death of Christianity is merely an eventuality like it has been for most human religions throughout time.1

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Written by Darren M. Slade, PhD · Categorized: FaithX Blog, Posts by Darren Slade · Tagged: Brian McLaren, Conditions for the Great Religion Singularity, death of Christianity, deinstitutionalization, destabilization, great awakening, great emergence, great schism, ken Howard, research, The Great Religion Singularity

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