The Great Rummage Sale of the church is happening now, just as theologian Phyllis Tickle predicted in her book The Great Emergence. We are reshaping, as the church does about every 500 years or so, by letting go of what doesn’t work, evaluating what should continue, and looking for a new way to be faithful.
Increasingly, churches are having to figure out a new way to be church in what seems to be a new era, where congregations are...
