It has been a great year of conversations about ministry, in part related to the buzz around the new book Weird Church. Even in rather slow-to-change places like Mississippi (where I worked this month), people report unprecedented numbers of their neighbors moving into the None and Done clubs. Where once almost everyone was at least tangentially related to some faith group, today, more than half of Mississippians are unchurched in parts of the state. They are talking about Fresh Expressions. In Mississippi. Friends, it is certainly not 1996 anymore.
