Kenneth W Howard’s Shares

  • Paradoxy: Creating Christian Community Beyond Us and Them

    Looking for a way to help your congregation, diocese, district, or denomination transcend differences and transform conflict into healthy diversity. Paradoxy provides a radical new middle way to prepare your church for the future while holding the heart of the faith. Great for small group study, leadership education, conflict transformation dialogue, strategic visioning, and more.

  • Congregational Vitality Assessment: A Research-Based Inventory

    The Congregational Vitality Assessment is designed to provide congregations with an assessment of Vitality (the health or the congregation) and Sustainability (whether the congregation has the people and financial resources necessary to survive). It can be completed by a single congregational leader, a congregational leadership group, or the entire congregation. We are making the beta version available free to those willing to test in in their church and provide us with feedback.

  • Faith (eXperimental)

    The blog of Ken Howard and The FaithX Project

  • FaithX Research

    Here you will find links to publications, summaries, reviews, and bibliographies on research, theory, theology, and practice related to the future of the Christianity and religion. It includes original articles from members of The FaithX Project as well as from other sources, including: The Association of Religious Data Archives (ARDA), Barna Research – The Barna Group, Faith Communities Today (FACT), Hartford Institute for Religious Research, and Insights into Religion. (Curated by Ken Howard and Darren Slade)

    Credit: Darren Slade

  • The Religion Singularity: What It Is? And How Congregations Can Prepare

    Ken Howard provides a summary of his recently published research paper, "The Religion Singularity: A Demographic Crisis Destabilizing and Transforming Institutional Christianity," briefly describing the impact of the Religion Singularity and how faith communities can prepare for it.