What Christians Can Learn from the “Atheist Megachurch”

This is either the Sunday Assembly, or a really hip Eastern Orthodox congregation

A few weeks ago, news sources were buzzing over the “atheist megachurch,” the Sunday Assembly. Atheists, agnostics, and other assorted nonbelievers can now gather together every Sunday in major cities like London, New York, and Sydney, hear a humanistic and/or scientific message, and sing some songs. It’s the typical Sunday evangelical church experience, wrapped up in a neat little package, and without all that pesky doctrine.

Why “Traditional” Music is Actually Contemporary

In 2007, I was studying to become an intern for the campus ministry of the PCA (didn’t work out, it was terrible, ask me about it sometime). Only small pieces of the lectures I sat through have stuck with me, but there’s one snippet that’s been bouncing around in my head ever since: “You’re going to a new town,” he said. “You’ll be attending a new church. And you’ll be extremely disappointed with your new church because it won’t be like your old church. And you’ll be disappointed because you’ve grown up with this.”