On Sunday mornings, at 9:00am in Board Hall, we have started a new course of study called The Future of Faith.  It covers a wide range of interconnected topics vital to our Christian mission, our everyday lives, and our world. For instance, what does it mean to be a Christian in the 21st Century?  With advances in technology like artificial intelligence, cybernetics, nanotechnology, and gene editing, how might the meaning of being human change?  What are the theological implications of these developments?  And underneath the technology, what is the relationship between science and religion itself? Are they mutually exclusive realms of thought, competitors, potential collaborators?   

 

We'll look at the classics, like Genesis 1 vs. the Big Bang Theory & Evolution. What of our mission field, in which over the past 4 generations, each subsequent one is half as likely to participate in a faith community than the one that went before it?  Why has this happened, and how does the Church address the needs or arouse the curiosity of the "spiritual but not religious"?  

 

These are my questions.  What are yours?