- June 3, 2016COURTSHIP A clergy and church meet and are mutually attracted. They court, learn about each other, and explore a possible…
- May 4, 2016EVANGELISM IS NOT SALESMANSHIP Recently we have seen lots of articles about the fall in church membership and the rise…
- April 15, 2016LOSS OF TRUST THAT BINDS US Consider what is happening in our society. In recent years, almost every major institution…
- March 11, 2016In the last blog, I shared a check list for a pastor to use for measuring how s/he cares about…
- February 24, 2016HELPING JESUS FACE REALITY Jesus has been traveling across Galilee proclaiming the good news of God and saying, “The…
- December 11, 2015DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING In the past two blogs, I've offered a creative way to engage complaints both among clergy and with…
- December 9, 2015LEARNING TO PLAY What if you could engage the members of your congregation in thinking creatively about the complaints that…
- September 9, 2015WE ARE MORE THAN CLERGY Recently my wife joined a local congregation,and someone asked me if I were going to…
- August 28, 2015THEOLOGY AND CHURCHES DON'T ALWAYS MESH In the last blog, I explained how churches can become engaged in truthiness or…
- August 26, 2015TRUTHINESS Some lies are so tempting. They are what Stephen Colbert calls truthiness. You want it to be true and…
