Most clergy recognize that some of their most important ministry is done quietly and often out of public view. For…

In addition to treating your staff members as individuals, it is also important to build a sense of community among…

There are some practical steps that you can take that will strengthen you ministry to your staff. One of the…

One of the surprises for a person who experiences his or her first experience of being head of a staff…

How often have you heard someone say, I’m spiritual but I’m not religious. If I hear them right, being religious…

Before you get too righteous about how fundamentalist respond, consider some of the words liberals can’t use without having a…

It isn’t what we say but how we say it that can mess us up. We live in a divided…

Consider some basic assumptions. One that God is real, personally involved in this world, and has called you to ministry.…

Allow your imagination to dream about the ideal faith journey for your congregation through this Lent-Easter season before you get…

Violence is often the result of distrust. The Challenge of Trust in building a safer society.

What any of us can do in response to the horror in Newtown, Conn.

The slaughter of the innocents in both Bethlehem and Newtown Connecticut are real pain even as we celebrate the birth…

In recent blogs I’ve tried to identify some dimensions of ministry that can cause pastors to feel like hypocrites. Sometimes…

I think I have shared an earlier version of this exercise before, but here is an updated version. An Examination…

If you want to know why you sometimes feel overwhelmed and exhausted, take a moment to reflect on the emotional…

In the last blog, I asked you to name some of your own hypocrisies. I suggested you try to identify…

The first step in following the Hypocritic Oath for Pastors, is to name some of the times when we are…

I once saw a sign outside of a church that read: “The church is full of hypocrites; You too are…

While it is understandable that we will have periods of anger and doubt, as expressed in Psalm 22, it is…

Psalm 22 provides a biblical template for responding to the emotionally stressful atmosphere around us in a spiritually healthy way.…