The World is Turning Turtle

In Episode 16 of Listening At The Fire, the podcast from Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, we take another look at the last 2 weeks of Sunday 11AM sermons from our Minister of Spiritual Life and Learning, Rev. Christopher Roe. 

As we pay homage to our historic 150 years of Fountain Street Church programming, Rev. Roe challenges us to not only accept and embrace the anxiety we feel in the transitional nature of year 151 and beyond; but in part 2 of his series, offers up a true alternative future of Spiritual Life and Learning opportunities at FSC, West Michigan and beyond: The Learning Commons at Fountain Street Church. 

NPR article about Allendale, MI Public Schools fight for sexual education: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/01/706944327/when-the-conversation-doesnt-include-you-lgbtq-sex-ed-in-a-small-town

 

Church decline statistics:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/248837/church-membership-down-sharply-past-two-decades.aspx

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/517785/

https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/attendance-at-religious-services/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/what-should-america-do-its-empty-church-buildings/576592/

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/religious-participation-survey/496940

https://www.apnews.com/f15241378057486ea437cad490a2ed67

 

More information will be released about The Learning Commons in the coming weeks and months. Be sure to follow Fountain Street Church on all of our social media channels, and stay up-to-date with all of the latest news at fountainstreet.org. 

 

*The views of the host are not necessarily the views of Fountain Street Church.

New episodes of Listening at the Fire will release every other Monday at https://www.fountainstreet.org/podcast.

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Episode credits:

Producer/Host: Virginia Anzengruber

Editor: Virginia Anzengruber

Sound Recordist: Conor Bardallis

Special thanks to: Rev. Christopher Roe for his challenging words

Theme song: "Alone Again" by Kingsbury. Her new song "Blurry Now" is available on Spotify, and is featured in the newest season of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix, and the new music video for "All Gone" is now on YouTube.