Christianity is dis-integrating into new denominations and faith communities faster than new followers can be found to fill them, rendering them unsustainable before the end of the century. 

FaithX offers practitioner-tested principles and practices to help faith communities survive and thrive in this increasingly chaotic environment by becoming increasingly lean, creative, and experimental, and their leaders more extrapreneurial.

Author - "FaithX: Experimental Faith Communities for an Undiscovered Future" (forthcoming 2016)

Christianity is at a crossroads. Paradigms that have defined Christian unity for centuries past are collapsing in ruins. The conservative-liberal conflict that has defined Christian disunity for the past century is coming to a dead-end.  Paradoxy proposes promising principles for a new way being Church that is true to the heart of Christianity: a radical new middle way, that transcends our tragic divisions, transforms our conflicts into diverse Christian community.

Author - "Paradoxy: Creating Christian Community Beyond Us & Them"

Lead the first successful new church start in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington in 40 years. Developed a schism-resistant approach to church planting and church growth, and a non-proselytizing approach to evangelism.

1st Successful New Church Start in 40 Years

Lead the team which developed an innovative approach to dialogue on human sexuality issues, which led to a significant shift in the emotional climate of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, and made it possible for conservative and liberal clergy and congregations to work together with more trust and less animosity.

Conflict Transformation Dialogue Process

Published groundbreaking research on the separation of Judaism and Christianity, and how the Church lost its Jewish roots by mistakenly excommunicating Jewish-Christianity as heretical, even though it's theology and ecclesiology was within the bounds of orthodoxy at the time. A cautionary tale for the modern Church.

Groundbreaking research on Jewish Christianity in the Early Church

St. Nicholas Episcopal Church

The Washington Episcopal Clergy Organization

Pastor | Speaker | Church Futurist

In the early 1990s, Ken left a successful strategic leadership, change management, and organizational rightsizing consulting practice to become an ordained pastor. His vision: to help faith communities learn how to survive and thrive in times of escalating uncertainty and exponential change. 

Over the next 20 years at a church he started near Washington, DC, Ken developed the concept of Minimum Viable Belief and the practices of Vision-Guided Experimentation, and over the past 5 years has helped scores of faith-based communities and organizations prepare to meet their undiscovered future by becoming more lean, creative, and experimental.

Creating Christian Community Beyond Us & Them

Non-Proselytizing Evangelism

Conflict Transformation in Spiritual Communities

Schism-Proof Your Church Through Conflict Transformation

Re-Paradigming Church Systems

YouTube video channel

Scribd writer profile

FiledBy author profile

Faithbook profile

Facebook personal profile

Spiritual Formation Centers website

St. Nicholas Church website

Practicing Paradoxy website & blog

Paradoxy Sample Chapters

Meet the Author Video

Boarderlines: Exploring the Fertile Boundaries Between Faith and Business

Minimum Viable Belief: Experimentation in Faith-Based Organizations

Stealing from Startups: A Church Goes Lean

Starting Fresh: Envisioning Your Congregation in a Missional Diocese

Unpacking the Vision: One Diocese, One Mission, To All God's People

Emergent Leadership

Beyond Liberal & Conservative: A Third Way of Being Christian

Imagining the 21st Century Church

The Death & Resurrection of Christianity: Re-Paradigming the Church

Biblically-grounded, highly-interactive, hands-on working conference provides participants with principles, language, & skills needed to lead congregations in exploring & employing an incarnational way of Christian community that transcends us/them divisions. Understanding & experiencing conflict as holy ground enables leaders to help congregations deal with tough questions without splintering, celebrate & engage diversity, & become better evangelists through non-proselytizing evangelism.

Paradoxy Working Conference (2-3 days)

The Rev. Canon Jon Betit

Canon to the Ordinary

The Right Reverend Edwin Leidel, Jr. 

Bishop Provisional of Eau Claire

Phyllis Tickle

Editor, Author, Speaker

Jon Shriver

Blogger

The Rev. Dan R. Dick

Blogger & United Methodist Pastor

Mary W. Farkas

Professor of Management

Amy Moffet

The Rev. Andy MacBeth

Rector

The Rev. Tom Brackett

Missioner for Church Planting, Redevelopment, and Fresh Expressions of Ministry

The Rt. Rev. Todd Ousely

Bishop

The Rev. Canon C. K. Robertson

Canon to the Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church

Joel Borofsky 

Evangelical Blogger

Brian McLaren

Author, Speaker, Activist

The Rev. John Maher

Church Planter & Pastor

Lorraine Jones

Resource Center Coordinator

The Rev. Peter Johnston

Pastor

The Very Rev. Dr. Paul F. M. Zahl

Dean Emeritus

Founder & President

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