I ADMIRE YOUR MINISTRY It is not unusual for a pastor to feel as if they are underappreciated. People may…

IMPERFECT PASTORS & CHURCHES   How does a congregation relate their faith to their relationship with their pastor? Too often,…

HAVE WE LOST OUR NERVE I remember reading a book in college that suggested that the Greek civilization came up…

A LUNCHEON INVITATION If your bishop, presbyter, or judicatory staff person called you up and asked you to go to…

  WHAT’S THE USE Kathleen Norris writes about Acedia and Me. Acedia feeds upon the thought that nothing is worthwhile.…

God’s truth and Human Response   Where would you place yourself between the assertion that there is no salvation outside…

NO SALVATION OUTSIDE THE CHURCH Beginning with Augustine but continuing with Luther, Calvin, The Scots Confession, and the Second Helvietic…

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT EXPANDED We need to reinterpret the fifth commandment. “Honor your father and your mother, so that your…

  WORDS CREATE WORLDS In Walter Brueggemann’s Israel’s Praise, he develops the idea that words create worlds. It is not the objective…

WHEN THINGS FALL APART One recent broadcast suggested there had been more than 250 cases of mass violence in  2017.…

I want to emphasize 3 of the 10 commandments as an antitoxin to anxiety. NO OTHER GODS It is the…

  (CONTINUING TO LOOK AT VULNERABILITY AND ANXIETY FROM TED TALK BY BRENE’ BROWN as applied to the pastorate.) HIDING…

  DO YOU LIVE IN AN ANXIOUS SOCIETY? (I am continuing to draw upon Brene’ Brown’s work on vulnerability and…

How do healthy clergy offer ministry in an anxious world? CLERGY DON’T HAVE IT ALL TOGETHER Clergy, like all humans,…

  (Thoughts derived from reflecting on 2 TED talks by Brene’ Brown www.ted.com/talks/brene’_brown) as applied to churches .)  This is my…

These resources are from the Presbyterian Board of Pensions. Other denominations likely have similar resources. Preventative Health Care  Studies show…

I continue working on my comedy routine about health and humor for my retirement community.  You can go back a…

BLUES BE GONE All of us experience down times. Sometimes it is caused by plans gone awry or a negative…

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

Below I will give you the link to the book of fifteen short story parables the Presbyterian Writers Guild recently…