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We may never again experience such an obvious opportunity to reevaluate our priorities as we have during the pandemic.
Starting a Church Without Losing Your Soul
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A Different Angle on Sustainable Cattle Farming
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Don’t Dance If You Don’t Want To
Sometimes we feel the feelings out of things. Let it not be okay if it isn't.
We Are AI: A New Technological Lens for Christianity
Christianity is desperately in need of an updated technological hermeneutic.
Art Frames the Intersection of AI, Machine Learning, and Human Decision Making
What happens when more cognitive work is given to AI, and what can we do to understand the decision process? Forget human nature, this is AI nature.
Finding Your Boundaries in Social Media
Asking some questions about why you're using a certain social media platform can help you prevent regrettable posts.
St. Isidore of Seville: Patron Saint of the Internet
Which saint can we ask to intercede on our behalf the next time the internet goes down or an especially cruel internet troll ruins a conversation? There’s a saint for that!
Pause & Reset
We may never again experience such an obvious opportunity to reevaluate our priorities as we have during the pandemic.
Starting a Church Without Losing Your Soul
For anyone who as ever considered starting a church, leading a church through revitalization, or even whether or not to enter pastoral ministry, Tim Morey has nine questions for you to answer.
A Different Angle on Sustainable Cattle Farming
The ramifications of cattle farming are more complicated than most of us are aware.
Don’t Dance If You Don’t Want To
Sometimes we feel the feelings out of things. Let it not be okay if it isn't.
Future Christian Podcast
Future Christian
At the Future Christian Podcast, we talk to pastors, authors, and other faith leaders for helpful advice and practical wisdom to help you and your community of faith walk boldly into the future.
Mark Elsdon on why We Aren't Broke
Rev. Mark Elsdon joins the pod to talk about his new book, We Aren’t Broke: Uncovering Hidden Resources for Mission and Ministry. He talks about how the book was inspired by his own church’s journey from decline and decay into vital mission and ministry by uncovering hidden resources and strategically utilizing them to advance mission. Mark also shares ideas about how we can begin to see these resources for ourselves and how we can overcome the scarcity mindset.
Mark Elsdon lives and works at the intersection of money and meaning as an entrepreneur, pastor, consultant, and speaker. He is cofounder of RootedGood, which seeks to create more good in the world through social innovation; executive director at Pres House on the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus; and owner of Elsdon Strategic Consulting. Mark is president of the board of directors of Working Capital for Community Needs (WCCN) an impact investing fund that provides micro-finance for the working poor in Latin America.
Mark has a BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley, a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin School of Business. Mark is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, USA, and lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his spouse and two daughters. He is an avid cyclist and considers it a good year when he rides more miles on his bike than he drives in his car.
Mark is donating 100% of author proceeds from the sale of We Aren’t Broke to nonprofit organizations engaging in creative solutions to address the “wicked” problems he writes about in the book.
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The Future Christian Podcast is a production of Torn Curtain Arts and Resonate Media.
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