The ten most popular posts in the last month here at The Pietist Schoolman:
How Not To Speak for a Generation: Rachel Held Evans on Millennials Leaving the Church- Eighteen Evangelical Colleges Earn a “D” for Finances
- The Underquestioned Assumption at the Heart of #AHAgate
- Why Are There No Holidays in August?
- A Few More Thoughts on Millennials and the Church
- How Financially Sustainable Are Christian Colleges?
- Evangelical Leadership on Immigration Reform
- Taking a Break
- The Spread of Technology Since 1900
- “New York-centrism” in Evangelical Cultural Engagement
Then, in honor of the remaining members of the Big “Ten” athletic conference, four more recent posts that I especially enjoyed writing but didn’t quite make the cut:
Hi Chris, I honestly (forgive my kid speak here) want to be “all done” with the discussion surrounding millenials and the church, but your post and the fact that I am now reading “Forgotten God” by Francis Chan leads me to share this quote: “The benchmark of success in church services has become more about attendance than the movement of the Holy Spirit. The ‘entertainment’ model of the church was largely adopted in the 1980s and ’90s, and while it alleviated some of our boredom for a couple of hours a week, it filled our churches with self-focused consumers rather than self-sacrificing servants attuned to the Holy Spirit.” Found this both convicting and compelling, as well as fitting to the discussion.