Category: HCMHC

  • July 27, 2016
    DO YOU LIVE IN AN ANXIOUS SOCIETY? (I am continuing to draw upon Brene’ Brown’s work on vulnerability and applying…

  • July 22, 2016
    CLERGY DON’T HAVE IT ALL TOGETHER Clergy, like all humans, come to their work with all the wounds, hungers, insecurities,…

  • March 30, 2016
    NAMING THE DEMON If you read the last blog, you know I believe there is no shame in having a…

  • November 20, 2015
    THE FUN SIDE OF GRATITUDE In the last blog, I suggested a process to combat feelings of depression. There are…

  • November 18, 2015
    Hard work can get you down OK, admit it, when you are in a very  public position, work long hours,…

  • October 7, 2015
    HEALTHY CLERGY There is a lot of scary news about declining churches, splitting churches, scandals in churches, bankrupt churches, and…

  • March 27, 2015
    IMPERFECT GRACE   How does a PRESBYTERY relate the faith to their relationship with the congregations in the presbytery? If…

  • March 20, 2015
    READING CHURCH IN SCRIPTURE   In a previous post on March 13, I explored the idea of reading the church…

  • March 13, 2015
    OUR WITNESS We seem to experience continual examples of church fights, splits, and splintering of the Body of Christ in…

  • January 16, 2015
    BE A HEALTHY CHURCH This past October I led the annual conference for the Presbytery Pastoral Care Network. You can…