RE-INVENTING THE CHURCH
Keith Drury has a piece on the Church of the United Brethren, a small denomination which is reorganizing itself into decentralized, non-geographical affinity clusters (although I noticed from the lists on their website that most of the churches themselves are creating geographical clusters). He seems energized by this creative leap of faith.

Keith is not nearly as jazzed by George Barna's latest research, which attempts to justify a church-less Christianity that looks more like disembodied Gnosticism than the historical faith affirmed by Christians from the days of the Apostles. Keith and two other Indiana Wesleyan University professors have written a response -- which I would be glad to sign, too.