Forward Movement

Dear friends in Christ,

This week, I’m delighted to share news of a new (and free!) course from Forward Movement and the Episcopal Church.

A few months ago, Forward Movement launched a new partnership with the Episcopal Church in which we’d worth with the Presiding Bishop’s staff to create new formation and evangelism resources for the church. Back in...

For the last few months, Forward Movement has been supporting the TEC Trajectory Study, a denomination-wide research project on Episcopal congregations led by the Rev. Dr. Christopher Corbin (Rector, Trinity Episcopal Oshkosh; Evangelism MAT Coordinator, Diocese of Wisconsin). It’s the full expansion of t...

Dear friends in Christ,

I’m sorry you didn’t receive a Forward Today weekly email last week. I was wrapped up in our semi-annual meeting of the Forward Movement board of directors. For this meeting, we gathered at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Minneapolis. Wow, what a great place that is!

Our board did s...

When I first saw the syllabus for my Intro to New Testament class at seminary, I wasn’t sure what to think. The reading list listed only one book (the professor’s own, obviously). For the rest of the class, we just needed to read the New Testament three times through by the end of the semester. There would be a final exam—full of short-answer questions whose answers would be ...

Dear friends in Christ,

Do you pray for your church? If so, wonderful! And if not, it’s never too late to start.

It’s easy to be disappointed by the church at times. After all, Jesus has delegated the leadership of his church on earth to sinners! Lay leaders, bishops, priests, and deacons all fall short occasion...