Cornerstone
Episcopal, Anglican and Lutheran parishes that keep the calendar
Threshold
Non-denominational and multi-site churches reaching people who have never been
What it is
Written for the person who has decided to try church and has not told anyone. Every page assumes no prior knowledge, no vocabulary and a certain amount of dread — including a section for the questions people are too embarrassed to ask out loud.
Every page assumes the reader is a stranger. "I'm new" is the loudest link on the site, the locations page answers where and when before anything else, and next steps are a short numbered path rather than a menu of ministries. The artwork is typographic — a revival broadside set in wood type — so nothing depends on a photographer.
What is in it
- A locations page that answers where and when before it says anything else, built for more than one site
- Next steps as a short numbered path rather than a menu of every ministry
- “Questions we are afraid to ask” — the page that does the most work on this template
- A safeguarding page written for parents, not for auditors
- Type posters instead of photography, so the template looks finished before you own a single picture
All 6 pages
Every one is written — there is no placeholder text in any of them. Click any page to open it in the live demo.
What to change first
The locations. Threshold assumes several, and if you have one you will want to collapse that page — it is designed to survive the edit rather than to punish it.
Questions about Threshold
We only have one site. Does it still work?
Yes. The locations page is a list; with one entry it reads as a “where and when” page, which is what a single-site church needs anyway.
Where did the artwork come from?
It is set in the template as type — a revival broadside in the tradition of printed handbills. There is no stock photography and no licence attached to any of it.
