Recent Entries

• Contemporary Church Attendance Is Dropping... So What?

  by Monsignor Samuel Cummings, D.D. July 5, 2018
  In the contemporary, information-age-world we have today... it's a fair statement that religious service attendance is dropping, particularly among millennials. And maybe it should be that way.Hear me out, first. Historically, churches were about what everyone knows about: the town's moral center,...

• Sam's Saturday Sayings: Judgementalism Today

  by Monsignor Samuel Cummings, D.D. August 12, 2017
  Good morning!   This may kind-of tie in to my last entry, "Ministry in the 21st Century," but I think it also stands for itself:   In the 21st century, we're arguably more connected to each other and the world than we ever have been before.  I think that, in a most ways, its made ...

• Sam's Saturday Sayings: Ministry in the Age of Information

  by Monsignor Samuel Cummings, D.D. August 4, 2017
  I think it's safe to say that the role of religion and, in particular, that of the Minister has changed since its inception to today.Once, the Ministry was virtually the exclusive form of education of people -- scholars and theologians were often one in the same.  Law and Religion were often on...