The Future of Faith
Holistic Leaders
We work with leaders because we know from experience that more often than not when we have a stuck community, or organization, we have stuck leaders. Part of our consulting philosophy is that our job is to help you see what you can't see and help you to come to know what you didn't know you needed to know. We help you take these resources for making change and give you support as you journey through the process.
Cultural Philosophy
We can help you to think about the language with which you think and talk about faith in a post-Christian culture. Too often people simply want to reclaim and rehabilitate old language, a practice we feel has not proven very successful. Our approach is to help you discover new language, liberated from the negative freight which often surrounds Christian communication.
Personal Theology
Alongside our courses we offer personalized services catered to your specific needs. Whether you are an individual in transition or part of a team seeking to guide a community through change we are here to help you. We work with you as you examine your own learning practices and communication style, helping you to isolate areas where you might be static or needing some new learning.
Navigating Belief
The pace of change around us and our organizations can feel overwhelming and it can be a challenge keeping communities and teams vibrant, particularly when navigating change. With many years of practical congregational experience and a deep knowledge of the complexities and challenges of community life we can help you design and then journey through the experience of transformational change.
The time is now
By 2010 it was estimated that America's third largest religious group is 'Unaffiliated,’ an independently minded group with no single issue, theology or view of God. This group is largely made up of younger people. Like it or not, we now live in a largely post-Christian and decidedly post-church world. What this means for churches is that business-as-usual tactics have not worked, and will not work. It's time for serious change, not incremental adjustments but radical reframing of what it means to be a community.
Whatever the future will be, we can no longer rely on the comforting assumption that it will resemble the past. Everything is changing and everything is up for grabs. Everywhere we turn we see the implosion of structures and ideas that have held our world together for a long time. Whether the 'writing on the wall' is a sentence of death or a sentence for life depends very much on how we respond and what we do with the opportunities presented to us. H&Co believes very much that the time is ripe for grabbing the future with both hands and creating new and innovative pathways into the future.