In the corporate world you get a report card every quarter and have to talk about it, whereas the church can drip, drip through bad trends for decade…

- Chris Lowney

One question I often ask is why the church doesn't set aside funds specifically to seed new ideas. A lot of our money tends to go into existing, lite…

- Chris Lowney

The church is like any large corporation in one respect. In its early days, either the early church or the early years of Microsoft, you see all kind…

- Chris Lowney

Denial of numerous problems can happen in any organization, and I don't mean this as flip or negative as it's going to sound, but you see it a lot in…

- Chris Lowney

It all begins with acknowledging that we have some very profound challenges, and that we don't have easy answers at hand, things that we know will so…

- Chris Lowney

To me the church's problem would be a hundred times worse if you felt everyone has written the church off, they don't want to know, there just aren't…

- Chris Lowney

It's not always going to cost money to turn a parish into a more welcoming parish. But it does take a willingness to change a lot of assumptions.

- Chris Lowney

We need to become a more welcoming church, one that reaches out more to those who have walked away or who aren't very interested to begin with.

- Chris Lowney