Author: Steve

  • July 28, 2023
    CONSIDER THE VALUE OF LAUGHTER Probably all of us have experienced how a well-timed joke has broken the tension in…

  • July 26, 2023
    There is a theological sense in which the whole future of ministry and the health of both clergy and churches…

  • July 21, 2023
    REDEMPTIVE POWER OF GOD Continuing with the model provided for us by Alcoholics Anonymous, the second step of the process…

  • July 19, 2023
    HEARING OUR STORY NEEDS COMMUNITY One of the powerful discoveries in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa was…

  • July 14, 2023
    TRANSFORMING ROUTINE INTO LIBERATION Far too often we move through the liturgy of a worship service waiting for an anthem,…

  • July 12, 2023
    Anger in Ministry (2) ANGER GENERATED IN MINISTRY Our culture does not usually associate ministry and anger. Yet many clergy…

  • July 7, 2023
    WHAT OUR CULTURE TEACHES US Our culture has a bias against anger. As a child we are told not to…

  • July 5, 2023
    AFTER REFRESHMENTS OK, you have played the first phase as described in the previous blog, and you have taken time…

  • June 30, 2023
    _______ PEOPLE OF THE BOOK Because we are people of the Book, it is good to call on Scripture as…

  • June 28, 2023
    IS JESUS BEING REALISTIC? Jesus has been traveling across Galilee proclaiming the good news of God and saying, “The time…