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Jan 02 2020

Looking Back on 2019

by Ken Howard

2019 was a good year for FaithX. It had its ups and downs – a rollercoaster ride, for sure, at times – but all-in-all, both despite and because of it all, we came through 2019 much stronger, with a clearer vision of who we are and where we are going, and with many successes to energize us. 

We’ve come a long way since we launched in December of 2016. Back then it was just me as FaithX’s executive director/principal (and only) consultant, a 4-person volunteer board of directors, and one client, the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland and its two newest congregations. 

Over the next two years, we would establish our affiliation with Datastory, collaborate with them to prototype, develop, beta test, and launch the next-generation demographic analysis and missional planning platform, which would become known as MapDash for Faith Communities, added about a dozen clients, two associate consultants, a blog coordinator, a volunteer research director, and publish a ground-breaking research paper entitled “The Religion Singularity.” 

In 2019 we broadened our reach even further. We expanded our work not only into more Episcopal dioceses, congregations, and organizations, but more importantly, branching out into more than five additional “denominations” (i.e., including the non-denominational movement), and have begun discussions with interfaith and non-Christian faith traditions. We launched a new peer-reviewed journal about religion and ministry. We worked with Datastory to develop and launch the new Neighborhood Missional Intelligence Report, and we designed the consultative Neighborhood Missional Assessment program to help congregations identify emerging missional opportunities and challenges in the neighborhoods they serve. 

And so I’d like to offer my appreciation to all of those who have joined FaithX on our experimental missional journey through the end of religion as we know it into the future of faith in whatever form God is calling it into being…

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Written by Ken Howard · Categorized: FaithX Blog, Posts by Ken Howard · Tagged: Congregational Sustainability Index, Congregational Vitality Index, Darren Slade, datastory, Datastory Consulting, Diocese of Georgia, Episcopal Diocese of Central Gulf Coast, Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma, Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Evangelical Presbyterian Church, faithx, FaithXperimental Blog, MapDash for Faith Communities, Mary Frances, Matt Felton, missional opportunity index, Neighborhood Missional Intelligence Assessment, Neighborhood Missional Intelligence Report, Steve Matthews, the Episcopal Church, the religion singularity, The Roman Catholic Church, Tom Brackett, Year In Review

May 09 2019

Missio:Engage – Transforming our faith communities for the sake of our neighborhoods

Adapted from the writings of Tom Brackett

“Love your neighbor as yourself.”
– Jesus

“Who is my neighbor?”
– A rich young ruler

The simplest way describing missio:Engage! is to think of it as yet another way to ask the age-old questions, “Who are our neighbors?” and “How is God calling us to love them?”

Or to unpack those questions further…

What would it be like if our faith communities and their dioceses loved their neighborhoods so much that they were willing to transform themselves for their sake and the sake of the Gospel?

What would it be like if we had eyes to see the God’s hand at work in the world around us and the courage to become God’s partners with God’s Spirit in that work.

What would it be like if we were part of larger community of practice that would help us anticipate, identify, and engage the missional opportunities emerging from the blossoming cultural diversity of our communities.

The groundwork for missio:Engage! was laid in July of 2018, when the Episcopal Church passed two enabling resolutions calling for the creation of  a “Community of Practice that works with congregations and their bishops to help them…better engage the cultural realities of their communities for the sake of launching new ministries and multi-cultural missional initiatives.”*

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Written by Ken Howard · Categorized: FaithX Blog, Posts by Guest FaithX Friends · Tagged: MapDash for Faith Communities, missio:Engage, mission development and redevelopment, Missional Opportunity, Tom Brackett, Way of Love

Apr 11 2019

Using Science to Find the Faithful: FaithX and MapDash Feature in WhereNext eMagazine

FaithX and MapDash for Faith Communities were featured in an article published this week in WHERENEXT, an online eMagazine of Esri, the international GIS company that provides much of the data that powers MapDash. The author’s team interviewed FaithX founder Ken Howard, and faith leaders representing several FaithX clients, including:

  • Kammy Young, Canon Missioner for Development, Episcopal Diocese of Central Gulf Coast
  • Scott Slater, Canon to the Ordinary, Episcopal Diocese of Maryland
  • Tom Brackett, Manager for Church Planting & Mission Development, Episcopal Church

Scroll down for an excerpt from and a link to the WhereNext article…

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Written by Ken Howard · Categorized: FaithX Blog, Posts by Ken Howard · Tagged: demographic change, Esri, faithx, Kammy Young, MapDash, Scott Slater, Tom Brackett, WHERENEXT

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