A Spiritual Mood Color Here is a game that can be played with some clergy friends. Begin with some clergy…

Doctrine, Doctrine, Who’s Got the Doctrine   The set up for this game is that you invite three or four…

    A Company of Pastors offers a fresh approach to overcoming the type of loneliness that seems inherent in…

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

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

LET’S GATHER WITH OTHER CLERGY I’m working on some material for the next conference of the Presbytery Pastoral Care Network,…

This litany was prepared as a response to the conclusion of our 222nd General Assembly. Feel free to use it…

The Presbyterian Writers Guild (PWG) invites all writers (and those who have dreamed about writing) to compose a short story.…

God’s Call — A poem   I’m not so sure That God called me I am a pastor The Spirit…

HAVING THE CONVERSATION If all the churches in the presbytery had a healthy relationship with their clergy and each congregation…

COURTSHIP A clergy and church meet and are mutually attracted. They court, learn about each other, and explore a possible…

  An Experiment in Modern Parables The winners of the three-phase writing contest are now available in a freshly published…

THE NOBILITY OF GOD’S CALL Now look at God’s call from God’s perspective. Again, I’m going to ask you to…

MAYBE IT WAS A WRONG NUMBER Some days you wonder, don’t you? Was I called to ministry or was it…

HEARING GOD’S CALL It is quite normal for clergy and educators to have moments of discouragement that lead them to…

UNASHAMED OF GRACE The Gospels never celebrate the failed behaviors of Peter and the other disciples but they do not…

BEGIN WITH THE WISDOM OF JESUS Jesus concludes the Sermon on the Mount with an image of the type of…

I think it was Loren Eiseley who said if humans had designed the universe, they would have made one disastrous…

A FRESH PERSPECTIVE The same problem looks different depending on the angle from which you view it. For example, a…

IDEAS VERSUS RELATIONSHIPS One of the hesitancies about speaking to people outside the church about faith is that we fear…