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- September 23, 2016
A progressive Feast in Parabolic storytelling wants your name attached to a story that will lift people’s spirits and cause…
- September 21, 2016
BUILDING CONNECTIONS AMONG THE CLERGY All General Presbyters/Presbytery Executives know the challenge. First, we live in an age of institutional…
- September 16, 2016
ADMIT IT, WE ARE A MIXTURE OF STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES WE KNOW IT’S TRUE We know that we are not…
- September 14, 2016
IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH Studies have repeatedly demonstrated that two major contributors to improved health are being social and doing nice…
- September 9, 2016
CREATIVE FINANCE Back after WWII, when there was a freeze on salaries, companies had to get creative in how they…
- September 7, 2016
YOUR FINANCIAL HEALTH It is important to occasionally take time to have a checkup. Of course the annual physical…
- August 31, 2016
SOMETIMES LESS IS MORE SEVEN WORD REFLECTION Sometimes less is more and fewer words dig deeper. A presbytery can encourage…
- August 26, 2016
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LAUGH A FUN EXPERIMENT WITH COLLEAGUES Try this experiment. Choose a couple of colleagues and…
- August 24, 2016
MAJORITY RULES This is an adaption of a community building game adapted to a church community. The set up for…
- August 19, 2016
Church Conflict – You Be the Judge Despite Jesus prayer that we may be one so that the world would believe…
- August 17, 2016
HOW TO TRUST WHEN YOU CAN'T VERIFY Ronald Reagan famously coined the phrase that you should trust and verify. Whether…
- August 12, 2016
BIBLICAL JOURNEY OF TRUST A major theme running throughout the biblical story is the theme of trust. Trust involves risk.…
- August 10, 2016
AN AGE OF DISTRUST Polls have shown the unlikeability factor for both of our major candidates for the presidency.…
- August 5, 2016
U U U Imagine yourself being part of a nationwide creative conversation about a significant issue facing the church. Picture…
- August 3, 2016
In the final chapter of Clergy Tails—Tales, www.smccutchan.com, the author offers some reflections on ministry and the nature of church in…
, , - July 29, 2016
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GOD AND ANY HUMAN THAT GOD MIGHT CALL. Leader: You are called to serve God. People:…
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