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25 prayers for the church in 2025

Top 5 Free Range Priest articles from 2024

'Why don't we just do 'house church''?

Church stats and a river in Egypt

10 (counter-intuitive) things I've learned in 10 years of (a really good!) marriage

Did C.S. Lewis say that?

What church is

Something different for Advent

The best time to follow Jesus was 2,000 years ago

'There has to be a better way'

Preaching and Running

God is knitting us together

The ministry of fewer meetings

The real reason clergy are exhausted

Common Ministry

I am in the miracle business

The church app as pastoral care

An eyelash on the Body of Christ

'The Repair Shop' for church

What makes a church 'member'?

We're all 'specialty ministers' now

The myth of the 'program size' church

What is a Priest?

September 11, 2001

The 'Free Range' and the 'Priest'

'The church needs us, but they don't seem to know it.'

Serving God visibly

How to save your church

Clergy as icons of faith

Clergy reality TV

Does Ministry Matter?

'I love ministry. I hate my job.'

My trademark and my ordination certificate

25 things I've learned from wearing a clergy collar

Why have a church website?

Ode to the Bulletin

Your word is truth

Why 'Father' Cathie?

Five church words I'm no longer using

How 'quiet quitting' changes the church

10 reasons for churches to quit stewardship

'If I don't do it, who will?'

Church stats to smile about

Become a Faith Practitioner

Joy as protest: why I pray for snow

'Tentmaker', 'Non-stipendiary', and 'Bi-vocational'

Small Church Christmas

What works for making changes

Church doesn't work like it use to.