{"id":22425,"date":"2026-06-17T01:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/to-preserve-or-to-repurpose\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:49:12","slug":"to-preserve-or-to-repurpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/to-preserve-or-to-repurpose\/","title":{"rendered":"To Preserve or to Repurpose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=CCELI5428481574\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After their conversation with Amy Butler, Amber and Tom turn to an emotionally charged question facing many faith communities today:<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Is it more faithful to preserve a dying congregation \u2014 or to repurpose its financial assets for new life?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They explore what\u2019s really at stake when institutions decline: not just budgets and buildings, but memory, identity and the stories held in stained glass, pews and potluck halls. Drawing on personal stories from their own lives, listener responses and Pastor Amy\u2019s idea of \u201choly disruption,\u201d Amber and Tom wrestle with whether closure can sometimes be an act of faith, rather than failure.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, they imagine creative alternatives \u2014 shared spaces, affordable housing, selling air rights, renting during the week \u2014 that honor both sacred history and present-day needs. It\u2019s a thoughtful conversation about grief, stewardship and what it means to believe in resurrection \u2014 not just preservation.<\/p>\n<p>For more episodes and info, visit<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/money-meet-meaning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Money, Meet Meaning<\/u><\/a>.<span\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n        <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2026\/06\/16\/to-preserve-or-to-repurpose\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After their conversation with Amy Butler, Amber and Tom turn to an emotionally charged question facing many faith communities today:\u00a0Is it more faithful to preserve a dying congregation \u2014 or to repurpose its financial assets for new life? They explore what\u2019s really at stake when institutions decline: not just budgets and buildings, but memory, identity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}