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A Minnesota Church Tells Older Members of the Congregation to Leave and Not Come Back

John Fea   |  January 20, 2020

I recently talking to a 60-something friend of mine who attends an evangelical megachurch that recently hired three new pastors.  I asked him if he liked these new congregational leaders.  He said, “Yes, I like them, but they don’t seem...

When Removing Monuments Strengthens Our Knowledge of the Past

John Fea   |  June 22, 2017

Earlier this week we posted on Kate Shellnut’s Christianity Today article on the way that churches in the South are dealing with their Confederate legacy and monuments. Since I wrote that post I learned about similar efforts at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church...

How Churches Can Steward the Past

John Fea   |  October 12, 2015

If you haven’t seen it yet, head over to The Pietist Schoolman and read Chris Gehrz’s “History as Stewardship of the Past.”  It is a powerful post about how churches might think about history. Gehrz calls on churches to preserve...

Commemorating St. Michael’s Marblehead, 1714

John Fea   |  June 2, 2014

Over the last few years I have had the opportunity to work closely with several local congregations as they have explored their history.  This work has been fun, but it has also been meaningful and rewarding.  It seems that more...

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