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Humor helps Clergy in a Stressful World
February 3, 2023 | Steve
IT HELPS TO LAUGH On my website, www.smccutchan.com, you will find God Laughs–Why Don’t You? : Making Use of Humor in…
A Hymnal for Clergy When Stressed
February 1, 2023 | Steve
It’s Time to Play Around Posted on May 24, 2017 | 1 Comment | Edit Mashables One of the fun strategies in comedy is called…
ENJOY MUSIC AND HUMOR
January 27, 2023 | Steve
TWO EXPERIENCES THAT CAN LIFT YOUR SPIRITS I’m leaving this Sunday for a Montreat Conference on Racism. I thought I’d…
Redemptive Faith, God, and Racism (part 3 of 3)
January 27, 2023 | Steve
AN INVITATION TO TRUST A REDEMPTIVE GOD Using the cross and the resurrection as our template for how God works…
Redemptive Faith, God and Racism (Part 2 of 3)
January 20, 2023 | Steve
RECOGNIZE THE CHURCH’S SCANDAL For Christians to respond to the reality of racism in our lives and in our congregations,…
REDEMPTIVE FAITH, God, and Racism (3 parts)
January 18, 2023 | Steve
GOD IS NOT DEFEATED BY RACISM What we discover with the cross is that God is not only not defeated…
AN ENVIRONMENTAL CHURCH
January 13, 2023 | Steve
AN ENVIRONMENTAL CHURCH As Christians, we believe that this is God’s world and we have been placed in the world…
RECOVER YOUR IMAGINATION
January 11, 2023 | Steve
IMAGINATION ENRICHES FAITH CONSIDER WHAT IT WOULD MEAN WHAT IF I took a trip that included about 2,000 miles driving…
Can We Confess for our Ancestor’s Sins
January 6, 2023 | Steve
AN EXPERIMENT OF A CORPORATE CONFESSION OF SINS AS A WORSHIPING COMMUNITY Our faith suggests that Jesus bore the sins…
MAKING A LIST OF CORE BELIEFS
January 4, 2023 | Steve
MAKING A LIST OF CORE BELIEFS What makes a church different from any group of friends and neighbors that occasionally…
LISTEN AS WE BEGIN 2023
December 30, 2022 | Steve
A Litany for 2023 (Feel free to make use of all or part of this litany with attribution.) By steve@smccutchan.com…
ASHAMED OF THE CHURCH; STICKING WITH IT
December 16, 2022 | Steve
ASHAMED OF CHURCH AND STICKING WITH IT Recently I was in a rather intense but respectful conversation with a small…
LITURGY AS ANTIRACISM SPEECH
December 14, 2022 | Steve
TURNING ROUTINE INTO LIBERATION Far too often we move through the liturgy of a worship service waiting for an anthem,…
LITURGY AS ANTIRACISM SPEECH
December 14, 2022 | Steve
TURNING ROUTINE INTO LIBERATION Far too often we move through the liturgy of a worship service waiting for an anthem,…
HAVE YOU HEARD WHY THEY DON’T GO TO CHURCH
December 7, 2022 | Steve
Have you ever heard any of these before? For enjoyment share the “Ten Reasons Not to Go to Church.” Allow…
WHY DO THEY CALL ME PRIVILEGED?
November 30, 2022 | Steve
White Privilege Checklist Peggy McIntosh, Associate Director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, describes white privilege as…
ONE BODY AND A VARIETY OF GIFTS
November 23, 2022 | Steve
How A Church ListensThe Intention of God At the root of our faith is an assumption that God has an…
CONFESSING SINS OF DISGUSTING NEIGHBORS
November 18, 2022 | Steve
MY NEIGHBOR IN THE BODY OF CHRIST What is my responsibility for my neighbor’s sins as a member of the…
A GIFT OF THANKS TO THE GIFTED
November 16, 2022 | Steve
IF YOU CHOSE TO BEFRIEND ME BY ORDERING A COPY OF THE NEWLY PUBLISHED SHOCK AND AWE: HOW THE CHURCH…
YOUR DAY TO HELP YOURSELF AND A FRIEND
November 16, 2022 | Steve
SHOCK AND AWE A NEW VERSION WITH QR CODES AT THE END OF EACH CHAPTER. HELP THE CHURCH GROW AND…