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January 25 Godsend Gathering at St. Mark's Cathedral, Minneapolis

January 13, 2025

Many people are spiritually curious, but church is not on their radar screens. They didn’t grow up going to church, they’ve heard negative things about Christians, or they’ve had bad church expe...

What is Faithful Innovation, and What are New Christian Communities?

January 6, 2025

Discipleship is at the root of both the Faithful Innovation process and the New Christian Communities the Episcopal Church in Minnesota is cultivating. By discipleship I mean having a relationship wit...

Faithful Innovation Begins with Listening: Holy Listening This Advent and Christmas

December 10, 2024

For Christians Advent is a season of hopeful waiting for the birth of the promised Christ child. Christmas is a celebration of the fact that God joined us in the person of Jesus. For Christians and no...

A Moment of Opportunity

December 3, 2024

According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Bible sales in the U.S. are up 22% through the end of October. To put this in perspective, last year total U.S. print book sales were up less ...

A group gathers at a table to hear ministry stories about faithful innovation.

A group gathers at a table to hear ministry stories about faithful innovation.

Your Next Faithful Step

November 18, 2024

(Pictured in above image: At the Innovation Summit at St. Mark's Cathedral on November 16, over 50 Episcopalians from all over Minnesota shared their next faithful step and ways they are joining up wi...

Christian Stewardship

August 28, 2024

Christian stewardship is the spiritual practice of treating all of life as a trust to be managed on God’s behalf. As Psalm 24 reminds us, “the earth is the Lord’s, and all that is in it” (24:1...

Lay Preaching Training 2024

August 13, 2024

Are you a lay person who has wondered about a call to preach? ECMN is offering a year-long preaching formation program in partnership with the Episcopal Preaching Foundation (EPF). Minnesota was ...

What Is Enough?

What is enough?This week’s Gospel (John 6:1-21) focuses on the well-loved and oft-told story about the miracle of the loaves and fishes. As our staff dwelt in this passage at our weekly meeting, we ...

Celebrating the God of Liberation

Beloved in Christ,On Friday, July 26, ECMN will celebrate the 50th anniversary of women’s ordination to the priesthood. The day includes storytelling, a showing of the film The Philadelphia Eleven, ...

Rhythm of Life

Beloved in Christ,I have been reading John Mark Comer’s book “Practicing the Way”, which the Bishop recommended earlier this summer. In this book, Comer frames up a process for what it looks lik...

Faithful Innovation Process Fosters Spiritual Deepening

January 11, 2024

Desiring to learn more about the actual spiritual impact of the Faithful Innovation process, I surveyed lay leaders from St. David’s, Minnetonka, Holy Trinity, St. Paul, St. Christopher’s, Rosevil...

Faithful Innovation Update

September 5, 2023

Faithful Innovation is an eight-month process in which lay leaders and their congregations engage in simple spiritual practices and small experiments to listen to and develop deeper relationships with...

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