Posts from March 2022
In Salem as it is in heaven…
I feel like there’s a sea of change coming for what christianity looks like in america. Like so many times before, we sit on a generational cusp, where the older and younger generations aren’t just different, but so supremely different that I see change being the only way forward for the church. 40% of people church attenders under the age of 40 have stopped attending in the last year. That’s not a seasonal or cyclical pattern, that’s a mass exodus.…
RIOT Message March 2022
Address the camera on a stand I’ve got set up in the front row for my boys. In case you can’t tell from my face, I’m old. I grew up in a very different time and place. So help me understand. Do high schoolers still actually get in fistfights? Or do you just harass each other online and call that bullying? Ok, let me give you a glimpse into the kid Jim Smith- so we moved at the end of…