Modern management theory has crept its way into Christian thought over the years, suggesting that parishes are best served when we are sorted into our gifts and talents slots. Fr. Stephen looks instead at the Biblical description of the Church in which our weaknesses rather than our strengths are to be valued.
Fr. Stephen Freeman is a retired Archpriest of the Orthodox Church in America and resides in Upstate South Carolina. He is the author of Everywhere Present: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe, and Face to Face: Knowing God Beyond Our Shame, as well as the popular Glory to God for All Things blog. His blog has quickly become one of the most read Orthodox blogs, being translated frequently in Romanian, French, and Serbian, by enthusiastic readers