May 27, 2026
Scott is traveling this week, so we’re bringing you a re-run post from Trinity Sunday 2022. Please enjoy! Dear friends in Christ, This coming Sunday is Trinity Sunday, our annual opportunity to celebrate the revelation of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It’s tempting to try and use this day to explain the Trinity, […]
May 20, 2026
Dear friends in Christ, This week, I’m delighted to share news of a new (and free!) course from Forward Movement and the Episcopal Church. A few months ago, Forward Movement launched a new partnership with the Episcopal Church in which we’d work with the Presiding Bishop’s staff to create new formation and evangelism resources for […]
May 14, 2026
Why we need your parish’s voice—yes, yours For the last few months, Forward Movement has been supporting the TEC Trajectory Study, a denomination-wide research project on Episcopal congregations led by the Rev. Dr. Christopher Corbin (Rector, Trinity Episcopal Oshkosh; Evangelism MAT Coordinator, Diocese of Wisconsin). It’s the full expansion of the narrower Bright Spots Study […]
May 13, 2026
Dear friends in Christ, I’m sorry you didn’t receive a Forward Today weekly email last week. I was wrapped up in our semi-annual meeting of the Forward Movement board of directors. For this meeting, we gathered at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Minneapolis. Wow, what a great place that is! Our board did some of the […]
May 4, 2026
When I first saw the syllabus for my Intro to New Testament class at seminary, I wasn’t sure what to think. The reading list listed only one book (the professor’s own, obviously). For the rest of the class, we just needed to read the New Testament three times through by the end of the semester. […]