Passional Church Substack
Michael Adam Beck, Ken Carter, Daniel Park, Rachel BillupsWe believe compassion-centered, trauma-informed communities can help heal a world experiencing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation.
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How Do We Renegotiate the Clergy Social Contract Around Equipping and Multiplication?
Question 3: How do we renegotiate the clergy social contract and reinterpret Word, Sacrament, Order, and Service around equipping and multiplication?
Daniel Park
Across local churches today, an unspoken “clergy social contract” silently...
How Do We Recover Methodism as a Movement of Lay Empowerment?
Question 2: How do we recover Methodism as a movement of lay empowerment by redesigning lay formation, certification, authorization, and deployment?
Rachel Billups
It has taken me twenty years to recognize something I should have seen mu...
How Do We Recover Spiritual Vitality as The Animating Center of Denominational Renewal?
Alejandra Salemi
It is a cruel reality that the vitality of church life is often forced onto the defensive, consumed with questions of survival amid declining membership, shrinking budgets, aging buildings, and institutional uncertainty. S...
Seventeen Questions For The Church I Love
In The United Methodist Church, we are preparing for the 2026 Council of Bishops Leadership Gathering in Calgary, Canada. I want to offer these seventeen questions as a contribution to the wider, ongoing conversation about adaptive restruct...
Collective Behavior and Social Movements: When the People Rise
Last Friday, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation proposal. It was intense, both the process leading up to it and the actual interview. For months, I have had my head buried in research while trying to keep up with the other are...
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Helping people heal, love, and unleash imagination to create better lives, communities, and organizations. Pastor. Sociologist. Educator. Exploring the social life of faith.
UMC bishop in Western North Carolina, Bishop-in-Residence at Duke Divinity School, and author of Unrelenting Grace (Abingdon). And I grind the beans.
Rev. Dr. Daniel Park is Lead Pastor of Restoration Church (Reston, VA), a recognized voice in the Fresh Expressions United Methodist movement, faculty mentor at United Theological Seminary, and a coach, writer, and speaker on church innovation.
Here, it's just me. I write nearly everyday for everyone else, but this space is mine to remember who I am.
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