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How Can Paramount+ Recoup Its $7.7 Billion UFC Bet? Subs Won’t Do It Original
We crunch the numbers to see if there are enough subscribers to help recoup Paramount's $7.7 billion investment in UFC.
STEMOSAURUS | Kirkus Reviews
A saur-ingly fun read. Hand this to those who love dinos and all things science. Few have heard of Spike the Stemosaurus, who’s inquisitive and good with numbers. Small and quiet, he’s not nearly as well known as his more rambunctious pals, who enjoy wrestling, heavy lifting, and racing; Spike prefers exploring, inventing, and learning about the world. Sometimes he longs to be strong, tall, and fast, like his pals.
The challenges of “innovation”
Facilitated by Wes Ellis with Andrew Root and Kenda Creasy Dean Over the last two years, Andrew Root and Kenda Creasy Dean have published books on social innovation (The Church After Innovationand Innovating for Love: Joining God’s Expedition Through Christian Social Innovation, respectively). Dean has been positive about the possibilities of innovation for the church. Root, on the other hand, has questioned the innovation fever that has seemed to come over American Protestantism.
Development and Characterisation of Composites Prepared from PHBV Compounded with Organic Waste Reinforcements, and Their Soil Biodegradation
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The Distraction of Decline
As Told to Jessica Hanewinckel There’s no doubt that statistically the Western church is in decline. Really, though, the decline narrative is a red herring. The real problem is that belief itself is becoming quite fragile. People are living with other or no belief systems, and they seem to be doing OK. So how do we form a community to be positioned to encounter a living God? What are our conversations really about?
When Church Stops Working - A Future for Your Congregation beyond More Money, Programs, and Innovation
What if the solution for the decline of today's church isn't more money, people, programs, innovation, or busyness? What if the answer is to stop and wait on God? In When Church Stops Working, ministry leaders Andrew Root and Blair Bertrand show how actively watching and listening for God can bring life out of death for churches in crisis today. Using clear steps and practices, they invite church leaders to stop the endless cycle of doing more and rather to simply "be" in God's presence.
Do less, and know God better
ANDREW ROOT is a doctor of theology rather than medicine, but when it comes to analysing the Church’s ills, it is a clinical framework that he reaches for. “Let’s start with the bad news,” he writes in his new book. “Your church is sick. But, that isn’t the worst part of it. We believe that someone has misdiagnosed it. The treatment plan commonly prescribed — effective innovation — will only cause your church to remain sick. . . The problem is not decline.
Application of Immersed Membrane Bioreactor for Semi-Continuous Production of Polyhydroxyalkanoates from Organic Waste-Based Volatile Fatty Acids
Open AccessArticle by Danh H. Vu 1,*, Amir Mahboubi 1, Andrew Root 2, Ivo Heinmaa 3, Mohammad J. Taherzadeh 1 and Dan Åkesson 1 1 Swedish Centre for Resource Recovery, University of Borås, 501 90 Borås, Sweden 2 MagSol, Tuhkanummenkuja 2, 00970 Helsinki, Finland 3 National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Mixed Up Stories
You might be thinking, these are nice theological ideas, but they seem disconnected from the decisions we need to make for our congregation. We can’t wait. If we wait, we’ll be closed in a few months. If our car idles here any longer, it might start rusting. We understand the sentiment. Yet, this is exactly where things get mixed up. We seem so anxious that it confuses us about who is the star of the church’s story. Inside the anxiety and anger, we become obsessed with our own story.
Andrew Root and Blair Bertrand
When Church Stops Working Brazos Press, 2023 By Andrew Root and Blair Bertrand WHO: Andrew Root, an author and professor at Luther Seminary; and Blair Bertrand, a lecturer at Zomba Theological University and teaching consultant with Theological Education by Extension Malawi. THEY SAY: “To obey Jesus’ command—to be the body of the living Christ—the church will always be in tension.” THE BIG IDEA: This book shows how actively watching and listening for God can bring life to churches in crisis.
Churches and the Crisis of Decline
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Blessed Mode
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Parenting, The Pandemic, and Paw Patrol: The Movie
Paramount Pictures The last film I saw in theaters was Annihilation. My wife was nine months pregnant with our son, and had Braxton-Hicks contractions throughout. In the loudness of Annihilation’s climax, our usually sedate, not-yet-born baby boy was kicking and twisting, buffeted by the shimmering waves of noise. I can only imagine how it sounded to him. I wonder if he was scared. And then 3 ½ years went by and I didn’t see a single movie in theaters.
Religion in a Secular Age Book Giveaway
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From Monks and Bells to Apps and Notifications
Despite the ways in which the coronavirus pandemic has confused our concept of time and curtailed a host of plans and activities, nearly all of us—and this is certainly true of pastors—feel as if we cannot keep up with the constant motion of the modern world. Life is fast.
Andrew Root, Ph.D.
Bio Andrew Root is an assistant professor on the faculty at Regent University. He was also a Ph.D. student at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. Prior to Regent, from 2011 to 2016, Root was division director, head of U.S. Equities, and member of the Board of Directors for Macquarie Capital USA. Prior to running U.S. Equities, Root was Head of U.S. Research for Macquarie. The Macquarie U.S. Equity team consisted of 160 professionals across the U.S. and around the world.
Preserve the Moose
illustration by Brianna Ashby “Do you feel that playing rock ‘n’ roll music keeps you a child? That is, keeps you in a state of arrested development?” “No, no, no. I feel it’s like going to a national park or something. And, you know, they preserve the moose. And that’s my childhood up there on stage.
Keeping the faith with young people in a secular, Covid-19 age (Andy & Phoebe Part 3)
Can you theologise coronavirus in an age of science? How can young people ‘perform’ faith in a pandemic? And where is hope after a seemingly hopeless year like this? Over the course of a few weeks, Youthscape’s Phoebe Hill and leading youth ministry thinker and theologian Andy Root sent each other a series of voice memos about theology and youth work in a pandemic.
Time for tech? A theology of online youth work with Andy Root (Part 2)
Technology has brought both support and frustration in facing Covid-19 – how is it shaping us? Is the Church too easily infatuated with tech, innovation, and a desire to ‘keep up’? Over the course of a few weeks, Youthscape’s Phoebe Hill and leading youth ministry thinker and theologian Andy Root sent each other a series of voice memos about theology and youth work in a pandemic. Here’s Part Two! Check out Part One of their conversation here.
Faces, spaces, and Zoom fatigue: A theology of online youth work with Andy Root
How is Covid-19 reshaping our relationships and self-perceptions? Is digital technology overrated? What does it all mean for a theology of youth ministry? Over the course of a few weeks, Youthscape’s Phoebe Hill and leading youth ministry thinker and theologian Andy Root sent each other a series of voice memos about theology and youth work in a pandemic. Here’s the first excerpt from their conversation.
Home is Where I Wanna Be
Universal Pictures When I was seven years old, I got lost. For years, there has been a series of free public concerts in the park by Little Lake at the centre of my town, and each show used to be followed by a fireworks display. People turned out by the thousands to fill the park in front of the bandstand, its giant sail-like canopy bathed in coloured light as family-friendly music filled the cool summer evening air.
Youth Ministry Needs Less Fun and More Joy
This is Wednesday night youth group. We don’t do Bibles here. We’re here to have fun.” That’s what a high school senior told me during my first week as a youth minister nearly two decades ago. At that church, I was only threatened with termination once, after several parents came to the senior pastor with the same criticism: Their children weren’t having as much fun as they did during the previous youth minister’s tenure. Clearly, in their minds, youth ministry was for fun.
Youth ministry isn’t about fun
I am sitting in a nondescript church fellowship hall, attending a gathering of the church’s youth group. Over the next hour, three people—a man in his fifties, a woman in her early thirties, a boy in tenth grade—get up and tell stories.
I'm Quite Aware of How Ridiculous I Am
illustration by Brianna Ashby In a somewhat incomprehensible turn of events, I have recently been cast in the role of Angel for an upcoming production of Jonathan Larson’s rock opera Rent. For the unfamiliar, Rent—based loosely on the Puccini opera “La Boheme”—tells the story of a year in the life of a group of young artists living in poverty under the looming shadow of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 1990’s New York City.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
I have a coffee mug without a handle. Granted, it’s difficult to drink anything hot out of it without constantly shifting the cup from hand to hand, or sipping quickly then setting it back down. It’s a warm shade of brown with an intricate mosaic pattern on it, and the interior is a deep aqua. What a thing of beauty! What a pain in the ass to drink from! It never gets offered to guests, and more than a few have wondered aloud why I keep it around.
How Dogs Help Us Experience Sabbath Rest
As a child, I struggled with reading aloud. I know well the paralysis that comes with performance anxiety: The mind goes blank, the words get stuck, and nothing comes out. If I was worried what the teacher thought, how I ranked, how I was doing, or what my friends were thinking, I was cooked. What would have helped me was the ministry of a reading dog. Today, elementary schools and libraries across the country have programs for kids who are like I was.
Saving Grace: Why Having a Dog Makes You a Better Human - Signature
Andrew Root, PhD, is a professor at Luther Seminary and is often mentioned as one of the leading scholars in youth ministry and practical theology in the world. In his new book, The Grace of Dogs, Andrew explores the spirituality in dog-human relationships, and explains why this connection is unique. Here, Andrew shares his thoughts on why dogs have such a positive impact on their owners. Leave it to Bill Murray to win the internet.
Divinity on the Upper East Side: Heroic Transformation in The Fisher King
POLARITY Kurt Vonnegut once gave a delightful lecture on story structure in which he simplified classic plots into basic graphs. Using a blackboard and chalk, Vonnegut draws up a simple set of axis: vertically, he labels “G” for Good Fortune and “I” for Ill Fortune. The horizontal axis is labelled “B” for Beginning, and “E” for—you guessed it—Electricity.
Sticks & Stones - Bright Wall/Dark Room
In the Akkadian language, “Babel” means “gate of God.” The building of towers has long been a method of displaying greatness, but the concept of greatness is a tricky one to nail down, tied as it is to arrogance and audacity. “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language,” God says in Genesis 11:6. “Now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.” With a universal language, humanity built a tower and opened that gate of God.
Issue 11: The Magnificent Andersons
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A Film in a Minor Key
illustration by Justin Reed In the Bangkok Post, May 26th, year 1967, there is an account of a concert pianist, a piano, and the pianist’s wife: the humidity of the climate produced a swelling of the felt pads within the piano, causing several of the keys to stick.
Anything That Can Happen, Will Happen
I will never be as angry at anything as the man sitting beside me was during my first screening of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.
A Wilderness of Tigers
When I was 17, there was a TV channel that only showed movie trailers, and I sometimes pretended to be sick so I could stay home from school to watch it. The eve of the millennium brought to home video a slew of dark, atmospheric movies with engrossing, unapologetically enigmatic trailers. Eyes Wide Shut, American Beauty, Being John Malkovich, Magnolia, The Blair Witch Project, The Virgin Suicides, eXiztenZ…1999 was an amazing year for film.
Stop Worrying About the Millennials*: *And Learn to Love Them Instead
Christianity Today Christianity Today, Inc. Root, Andrew. “Stop Worrying about the Millennials*: *and Learn to Love Them Instead.” Christianity Today59, no. 1 (January 2015): 30–36. https://luthersem.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rfh&AN=ATLAn3766750&site=ehost-live&scope=site. Root, Andrew, "Stop Worrying About the Millennials*: *And Learn to Love Them Instead" (2015). Faculty Publications. 59. https://digitalcommons.luthersem.edu/faculty_articles/59
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