Fresh Expressions Seminary

New article from Alejandra Salemi, Bishop Ken Carter, Jeff Van D**e, and Michael Adam Beck.

https://passionalchurch.substack.com/p/how-do-we-recover-spiritual-vitality

17 questions for rebuilding a "go-shaped Methodism" from Michael Adam Beck this morning. What are your thoughts?

https://passionalchurch.substack.com/p/seventeen-questions-for-the-church

New article from Dr Michael Adam Beck. If populations become aware of unjust social structures? How do they change them? Great historical analysis here.

https://passionalchurch.substack.com/p/collective-behavior-and-social-movements

This one is a 🔥 thrower from Dr Beck…

Read more here 👇🏽
https://passionalchurch.substack.com/p/globalization-and-immigration-who

What does the life course teach us about aging? Did you know that getting older and becoming wiser are not the same thing?

Here’s a new article from Dr Michael Adam Beck.

Dr Michael Adam Beck explaining gender stratification. Don’t miss this article, it’s a good one!

https://passionalchurch.substack.com/p/sex-gender-and-the-family-rewriting

Has your local church or community been affected by growing political and cultural polarization? Have relationships in your congregation or community been strained, disrupted, or broken as a result?

Path 1 New Church Starts at Discipleship Ministries invites you to the Discerning the Spirits Roundtable. This is a conversation designed to equip leaders of new, emerging, and existing congregations as they navigate these challenging realities in their communities. Come and learn as local church and community leaders share how they are leading and where they are seeing signs of hope. Together, we will explore how the church can respond faithfully through discernment, courageous conversations, repair, compassion, and renewed allegiance to Jesus Christ.

This roundtable continues the conversation from the 4-part Discerning the Spirits article series, which explores political and cultural polarization and what faithful Christian witness can look like in the midst of it. Check out the article series, Discerning the Spirits. https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/articles/discerning-the-spirits-part-4-full

Join us on Tuesday, August 25, at 7:00 pm Eastern Time on Zoom for this important conversation. Register Now! https://upperroom-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LdjG8bKTTE6eFIkJab3VIw #/registration

Imagine getting free access to an introductory course in the sociology of religion? Dr Beck is providing that right here…

https://passionalchurch.substack.com/p/the-sociology-of-religion-the-changing

Register for Discerning the Spirits Roundtable on Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time!

https://upperroom-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LdjG8bKTTE6eFIkJab3VIw #/registration