No One’s Making a Docu-Series about Ordinary Churches

All the attention given to the glittering, grifting celebrity churches obscures the reality of grace in ordinary places

I stood in my congregation’s cemetery yesterday and watched as an old man, weighing perhaps no more than one hundred pounds soaking wet— he’s battling cancer, finished filling the grave of the dearly departed. Wheezing from the effort, he dusted the mud off his pants …