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How to Renew Your Church: A Page from John Calvin’s Playbook

July 7, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

I took another trip  in the time machine recently. I went back to Calvin’s Geneva again. Okay. Not really. It was a Skype call with a friend from seminary: the Rev. Jerry McKinney. I interviewed him for a class I teach on forms of Christian community. But I’m telling you, the story of Jerry’s pastoral ministry is […]

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How to Keep Unity in Times of Division

April 27, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

I took a trip through a time machine last week, all the way back to Calvin’s Geneva. Okay, not really. Actually it was a Delta flight to Tucson. I got to lead a retreat for the pastors’ study group of the Presbytery de Cristo. Over twenty of them meet every month to study theology together. I […]

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