Contemporary congregations often recruit against a background of anxiety about decline. Whether receiving transfer growth from declining congregations, facing amalgamations, closure of worship-centres, or losing members to neighboring churches or post-institutional life, church-members may have an unspoken awareness that congregational life is not the central aspect of Christian life in the West that it once…
Author: paulanthonywallis
Iam a Researcher, Speaker and Author of books on spirituality and mysticism, probing the world’s mythologies for their collective memory of human origins. In the ’80’s and ’90’s my work centred on establishing foundations for new faith communities. Over the last 20 years I have designed and delivered training for church-ministers in the UK and Australia. In Australia I have lectured on the history of religious thought and hermeneutics (principles of interpreting texts – including the Bible) and have served the Anglican Church as an Archdeacon in the Australian Capital Territory. I provide personal coaching to clients in leadership and am a practitioner of healing in the Christian tradition.
I am married with three children and live in Australia.