Posts with the tag “church-culture”

In the wake of the last few years of social justice work characterized by the rise of Black Lives Matter and the #metoo movement, the term "intersectionality" has risen in prominence. If this term is ...  Read More

What does making a safe space for young adults in the church look like? This is an interesting question for churches to consider. When this project started, the churches that applied and were accepted...  Read More

One phenomenon that Pivot NW has been watching closely across the last few years is 20-somethings joining the church council.Out of the 20-or-so churches that we've worked with, the number of 20-somet...  Read More

Thumbnail and main image: Sermon on the Mount by Carl Bloch (1877), Public Domain One of the first things we did when we started this project was to dream up an application that would be short enough ...  Read More

If you're anything like me, you might find the word "ideation" intimidating. What is it anyway? And "ideation lab?" I know most of us haven't had to set foot in a lab since high school or maybe colleg...  Read More

Early on in the life of this grant we found ourselves giving general advice as to how to spend some of the considerable fund we had to give out. We had told our tier one churches that we were going to...  Read More

PART 2 IN A 3-PART SERIES BY PIVOT NW RESEARCHER REV. DR. ERIC FORD Change is hard. As a leader in your congregation, you are constantly facing change, ready or not! Maybe you are a new young adult le...  Read More

PART 1 IN A 3-PART SERIES BY PIVOT NW RESEARCHER REV. DR. ERIC FORD “The only thing constant in life is change.” This pearl of wisdom is attributed to the Greek writer Heraclitus, 500 years before Jes...  Read More

Reviewing the literature that is part and parcel to our work is very revealing. We see both how young adults want to be regarded, and how non-young adults want to or have learned to regard young adult...  Read More