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Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
Proposition 2. The more modernized the society, the more extended the rationalized institutional structure in given domains and the greater the number of domains containing rationalized institutions.
American Journal of Sociology • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony on JSTOR
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Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
The expanding polarization has made it painfully clear that something is not quite right.
William A. Richards • Beyond the Narrow Life
Small churches—which make up the vast majority of congregations in communities across the US—have a shrinking number of people and resources to work with.
Bob Smietana • Reorganized Religion
The Church in a Secular Age: A Pneumatological Reconstruction of Stanley Hauerwas’s Ecclesiology (Princeton Theological Monograph Series Book 233)
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“Biznistry can’t be simply about releasing profits. It’s got to be about bringing glory and honor to Jesus in all we do, and seeking him for direction.”
Jeff Greer • BIZNISTRY: Transforming Lives through Enterprise
Established in a series of fifteenth-century papal bulls (official edicts that carry the full weight of church and papal authority),