Both the burgeoning church and an (unrelated) graduate school provide a perspective on how postmodern Christian movement churches are striking up conversations — and sparks — with mainstream culture.
A new minister lays plans for revitalizing Seattle's First United Methodist Church, temporarily homeless after moving from a crumbling downtown landmark. Saving mainline downtown churches is far from easy, but Rev. Sanford Brown thinks he has a formula, derived from serving the Belltown neighborhood
Author Bruce Barcott, who wrote a book about the mountain, recounts the visible effects of climate shifts: plants growing higher up, melting glaciers releasing rocks and silt, climbing routes turning from ice to rock.
