Light in Our Darkness
Today is Holy Saturday. It is the quiet solemn day between Good Friday, when we commemorate the death of JesusContinue Reading
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What Would Happen If…We Appointed Long-Term Pastors with Trained Interim Pastors at the Ready
I read with interest an article highlighted this week in the Harvard Business Review’s “Today’s Tip” on How to SucceedContinue Reading
What Would Happen If…Superintendents Stopped Managing?
I have been employed by a local church as a lay person or as a clergy person for thirty-one years.Continue Reading
Avoiding the Short Circuit
What would happen if…we appoint pastors to circuit-based ministries to develop new faith communities, language ministries, innovations, and shared ministry/staffingContinue Reading
What Would Happen If…All Church Locations Had Vocations
This blog entry is part of a larger series about a shared aspiration for the future of the United MethodistContinue Reading
A Restored Church
Since the disastrous Special Called Session of the General Conference in 2019, a new longing for a different way ofContinue Reading
Religious Apps & Games (School Part 2)
(This post is again another school-based project for my class at BU.) My “go to” religious app is linked toContinue Reading
Childhood Stories – A School Assignment
(During this fall I am completing my final online course as part of my Doctor of Ministry program at BostonContinue Reading
Does United Methodism Need a Map?
I fell in love with maps as a child. As a native Southern Californian, I would read and study theContinue Reading
Being United Methodist
Like many United Methodists, we awake to the day following our Special Called General Conference with a host of differingContinue Reading
