Carson Reed usually is slow to use the word “crisis” to describe a situation, “but it may well be apt for our day,” he writes in the Mosaic blog hosted by the Siburt Institute for Church Ministry, where he serves as director. “In addition to the many churches that are in decline, something else that we are observing is a
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By LORETTA FULTON The decline in church attendance is so dramatic it feels like an emergency that needs immediate attention. “I felt like we were coming to a first-responders’ convention,” a participant in Abilene Christian University’s Summer Seminar said after a presentation Friday afternoon, Aug. 9, the first day of the two-day seminar. Royce Money, chancellor of ACU and founding
Read moreBy LORETTA FULTON “My name is Houston Heflin, and I don’t like hard conversation.” That opening remark was made by one of the speakers for the fourth annual Summer Seminar hosted by Abilene Christian University, but most likely anyone in the audience could have said the same thing. “The Gospel and Culture: What’s a Christian to Do?” was the theme
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Spirit Of Abilene 