- September 3, 201448TH ANNIVERSARY Today will be a short post celebrating an event that still amazes me. Today I celebrate the 48th…
- August 29, 2014THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT EXPANDED We need to reinterpret the fifth commandment. "Honor your father and your mother, so that your…
- August 27, 2014WORDS CREATEWORLDS In Walter Brueggemann's Israel's Praise, he develops the idea that words create worlds. It is not the objective experiences…
- August 25, 2014BEING DRAWN INTO ANXIETY A challenge for any pastor in this anxious age is to not absorb the anxiety of…
- August 22, 2014I want to emphasize 3 of the 10 commandments as an antitoxin to anxiety. NO OTHER GODS It is the…
- August 20, 2014(CONTINUING TO LOOK AT VULNERABILITY AND ANXIETY FROM TED TALK BY BRENE' BROWN as applied to the pastorate.) HIDING FROM…
- August 11, 2014CLERGY DON'T HAVE IT ALL TOGETHER Clergy, like all humans, come to their work with all the wounds, hungers, insecurities,…
- August 8, 2014(Thoughts derived from reflecting on 2 TED talks by Brene' Brown www.ted.com/talks/brene'_brown) as applied to churches .) This is the…
- July 14, 2014A VARIETY OF IMAGES FOR GOD There are a variety of images for God in the Bible and in the…
- June 16, 2014By September I plan to have available on Amazon three small books in a series Healthy Clergy Make Healthy Congregations.…
