Northern Lights: Resurrecting Church in the North of England w/The Rev. Dr. Jason Byassee
Tuesday, December 15, 2020, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Clergy and Lay Continuing Education Opportunity Via Zoom
Northern Lights: Resurrecting Church in the North of England
Featuring the Rev. Dr. Jason Byassee
It is commonly known that churches in Europe, including the UK, are struggling. Any tourist can gawk at the massive monuments to past faith and wonder whether these cathedrals are museums, or tombs, or living instantiations of the body of Christ. Meanwhile, quietly and around the edges, new life is forming. Some of it is clearer than others: for example, the massive church planting and catechizing efforts of Holy Trinity Brompton in London and throughout the south. But even in England’s less economically prosperous and culturally prominent north there are signs of new life in church. What will the church look like after the collapse of Christendom? Dr. Jason Byassee’s new book, Northern Lights: Resurrecting Church in the North of England offers some clues. Churches that “intend to grow tend to grow,” as David Goodhew says. Readers in North America can learn here from some of the most creative pioneers of church renewal alive.
Please join us for this month’s Zoom continuing education offering from Dr. Jason Byassee, professor of homiletics and biblical interpretation at the Vancouver School of Theology. Dr. Byassee served for a number of years as a contributor and editor for The Christian Century and is the author of many magazine articles and books ranging from the scholarly to the popular. An ordained Methodist minister, he also has served as senior pastor of Boone UMC in Boone, NC, and in several other congregations. Especially given continuing trends of church decline in TEC and throughout North America, the stories he’s uncovered about church growth and renewal in rocky soil can both inform and inspire us in the diocese of Dallas.
This session will be recorded and available for viewing later, for those who cannot make the scheduled time: if you would like to view this later, please contact Kim LaNore at by Dec 13th. If you plan on participating live, please also RSVP to Kim LaNore by Dec 13th. This is the seventh in a series of continuing education offerings by the Diocese during this season of physical but not social and ecclesial distancing. Please join us!
Cn. Jordan Hylden