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Not Comfortable Returning to In Person Worship
According to a June 2020 survey conducted by the American Enterprise Institute nearly 2 out of 3 Americans (64%) are not comfortable returning to in person worship at this point in the COVID-19...
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Social Media in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Social media has played such a significant role for so long that I rarely think about life before social media. Perspective When I stop and think about the arrival of social media – and the onset of...
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Top 5 Tweets of 2020
The following five tweets by @SoWhatFaith generated the most impressions in 2020. These top tweets are all quotes from books or sermons by William J. Barber, II; Anna Woofenden; Brian McLaren; and...
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Top 10 Posts of 2020
2020 has been the year of the pandemic, and a year marked by more changes in the life of the American church than any in my lifetime. This year’s top posts reflect this reality while also including...
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Giving Up the Tech Averse Church
For Lent, I’m giving up something big: the church I always knew. And, unlike past Lenten disciplines that ended on Easter, this change is one I expect to be permanent. Slow to Change I remember...
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Thinking Theologically: Exploring 5 Tweets
I’ve been tweeting as @SoWhatFaith since 2009. In 2021, the majority of my tweets have been quotes from new books. Interestingly, according to Twitter’s built in analytics, my top tweets this year...
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Celebrating 12 Years of So What Faith
In the spring of 2009 I decided to give blogging a try. After doing a little research, talking with several friends and colleagues who had already been blogging for awhile, and brainstorming possible...
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Top Posts of 2021 (January – June)
In a few days, we will reach the midpoint of 2021. Many of my blog posts this year have focused on how churches and other ministries are reopening, and how the next normal will differ from what had...
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10 Most Liked Tweets in Last 10 Years
My ten most liked tweets of the last ten years are So What? I’ve tweeted nearly 18,000 times in the 12 years and one month since joining Twitter. Given that volume, it is interesting to see that my...
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Top 10 Posts of 2021
2021 has been a year of striving to live into a reality known best as “new normal” or “next normal.” This year’s top posts (posts published in 2021 with the greatest number of page views as of...
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Top 21 Posts (All Time)
Since launching So What Faith in 2009, I’ve written more than 1,960 posts about matters of faith that matter. Based on page views, the all time most popular posts on So What Faith (as of December 26,...
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Tweets Worth Thinking About (#1986)
In the past, I’ve limited my blogging about my tweeting to times when what I said was amplified by others. This has resulted in posts that include 10 Most Popular Tweets in the Last 10 Years (2021)Top...
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Blogging in the 2000s (#1988)
In the spring of 2009, I decided I’d like to enter the world of blogging. At the time I was serving First Presbyterian Church in Naples, Florida, and felt blogging would be an easy way to share some...
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Mainline Decline: 1990 to 2020 (#1989)
I’ve been hearing about Mainline decline for my entire life. As a lifelong participant in multiple denominations within this tradition, I don’t remember a time when I was not a part of conversation...
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Blogging in the 2010s (#1991)
When the 2010s began, I had been blogging for seven months. While I planned to continue, I had no idea that I would blog for the entire decade (and beyond). During this decade, I continued to write...
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Blogging in the 2020s (#1994)
At the start of the 2020s I had been blogging for 10 1/2 years, and was committed to continuing to provide new content focused on matters of faith that matter. While I started the 2000s and 2010s as...
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Celebrating So What Faith: 13 Years & 2,000+ Posts (#2002)
Thirteen years ago today, I launched So What Faith. One day later, I added my first blog post. Thank you for journeying with me. While this blog has remain committed to exploring matters of faith that...
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Top 10 Posts of 2022 (#2020)
2022 has been a year of transition and change – planned and unplanned. My wife and I relocated to a new home and said goodbye to a congregation, I survived a brutal assault, and I parted ways with the...
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Top 10 Plates (#2022)
This is the time of year when food is more central than usual. From Thanksgiving through Christmas there are many reasons family and friends gather at table to share food and life with one another....
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Top 20 Posts – All Time (#2024)
I’ve written more than 2,000 posts here at So What Faith over the last 13 years. The Top 1% of these form the Top 20 Posts of All Time (based on total page views). The list below includes the title of...
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