The worship Advantage For the next several blogs, I want to focus on the  practice of worship as an anti-racist…

(PART 2 OF A SERIES) A TIME TO CONFESS SINS OF SELF AND OTHERS You stepped outside the daily routines…

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MAKE A GAME OF IT  The single pastor or educator can invite another colleague or two or three to share…

God’s Fondness for Rascals At points of frustration in our ministry, Psalm 47 can be a helpful devotion reminding us…

SOMETIMES THE BEST MINISTRY IS RECEIVING MINISTRY FROM ANOTHER I want to pursue this idea of the importance of being…

OUR EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER Ministry places you on an emotional rollercoaster. At one moment you are preparing a sermon. Then someone…

Here is a fun little exercise that can engage a small group, stimulate laughter, and bond people together. The idea…

God called me to ministry. God called me to gather a group of narcissists and teach them to love each…

REPARATIONS One aspect of God’s reconciling work may involve the issue of reparation. Desmond Tutu, in speaking about the struggle…

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

There is a theological sense in which the whole future of ministry and the health of both clergy and churches…

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

HEARING OUR STORY NEEDS COMMUNITY One of the powerful discoveries in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa was…

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

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

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

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…

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