#254 Mark Holbrook: The Declining Church—What Next?
Release Date: 10/05/2022
#418 Sarah Aviram—Finding Fulfillment
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Sarah Aviram is an international keynote speaker, leadership consultant, and former Fortune 500 HR leader. Her talks are about answering the question, “Does more freedom at work mean more fulfillment.” LINKS Please check out Sarah Aviam’s most recent book, The Scenic Route, right .
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#417 Doug Johnston--Choosing Your Emotions
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Our guest today is Doug Earl Johnston who wrote a brilliant book titled, Choosing Emotions.” Over a multi-decade career spanning banking, private equity, and litigation consulting, Doug developed a sustained interest in language, motivation, and emotional definition. “Choosing Emotions” represents nine years of research across disciplines and traditions. LINKS Please check out Doug Earl Johnston's most recent book, Choosing Emotions, right .
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#417 Doug Johnson--Choosing Your Emotions
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Our guest today is Doug Earl Johnson who wrote a brilliant book titled, Choosing Emotions.” Over a multi-decade career spanning banking, private equity, and litigation consulting, Doug developed a sustained interest in language, motivation, and emotional definition. “Choosing Emotions” represents nine years of research across disciplines and traditions. LINKS Please check out Doug Earl Johnson’s most recent book, Choosing Emotions, right .
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#416 Katie Rizzo—Creativity in Grief
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Our guest today is Katie Rizzo, mother of a young suicide victim. In 2024 Katie’s son took his life and Katie soon discovered a way to manage her grief: Writing. She has written a memoir, “The Timesters of Grief,” and a selection of deep poetry. Today we will talk about grief and the salve of creativity. We’ve never discussed this subject on the show…. Check it out.
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#415 Kevin Roth: Create a Fun and Fulfilling Life
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Our guest today is Keven Roth. Is an artist, author, singer, songwriter who after being diagnosed with cancer, changed his life radically.
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#415 Kevin Roth: Create a Fun and Fulfilling Life
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Our guest today is Keven Roth. Is an artist, author, singer, songwriter who after being diagnosed with cancer, changed his life radically.
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#414 Norman Calvo- Finding Joy in Older Age
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Show Notes Our guest today is Norman Calvo, bank owner and entrepreneur. Norman owned a bank for 44 years in NYC. After selling it he now wants to coach a group of men looking to find joy post 70. That’s our topic today. Check it out.
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#414 Norman Calvo- Finding Joy in Older Age
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes Our guest today is Norman Calvo, bank owner and entrepreneur. Norman owned a bank for 44 years in NYC. After selling it he now wants to coach a group of men looking to find joy post 70. That’s our topic today. Check it out.
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#413 Matt Smith on Beauty
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Matt Smith is an educator and entrepreneur Join me as he talks about Beauty in the traditional sense.
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#413 Matt Smith on Beauty
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Matt Smith is an educator and entrepreneur Join me as he talks about Beauty in the traditional sense.
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On our show today my special guest, Mark Holbrook, and I will discuss the issues around the recent (and troubling) decline in church attendance in the United States over the past 20 years. For instance, in the year 2000 70% of Americans claimed to attend some kind of church, and just 20 years later, in 2020, that number has dropped from 70% to 47%--a 23% decline in just 20 years! That is a very significant decrease.
Now… I have a few ideas on the subject, and I can’t wait to discuss them with Mark Holbrook, who is an enormously informed “lay scholar” of the biblical text and an elder at Grace Church of Orange CA.
I want to speak with Mark because he is an evangelical conservative with a deep love of people and an even deeper love of the work of God in the church.
So… what accounts for this decline in church attendance? Has the church failed its people? Has the very liberal American lifestyle played a role? Or does it have something to do with the influence of media and politics—neither of which is very “pro-church” today.
I think it is mostly likely the influence of all three in addition to many other factors that account for a withdrawal from “organized religion.” And there’s another topic for today: are people leaving God or organized religion?
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