Have you ever wished for an uninterrupted time of focused writing or editing? Yet you never want to sink back into binge writing that drains life and energy, making you want to abandon your project either! So how could you…
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This download will give you ideas, wisdom, and inspiration for your writing. Writing strategies come from Robert Boice (10) and Eileen Campbell-Reed (5). These 15 rules for writing will help you begin or strengthen your writing habits. Writing prompts come…
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Developmental Reading + Feedback + Coaching + Writing Table Sometimes as a writer you want coaching to help you get your writing on the page or screen, and you also need coaching for the content and development of your writing.…
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Coaching + Writing Table Do you need coaching to help you get your writing out of your head and onto the page or screen? Are you starting a new project? Maybe you are stuck in a writing task? Or perhaps…
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Join us at the Writing Table for any specific calendar month for just $30. We meet most weekdays.* The rate is $30 per month. If you are considering the purchase of seven or more months at the Writing Table, consider additional savings by purchasing the…
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This electronic bundle includes Eileen Campbell-Reed’s book Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life. The book is delivered for reading by kindle (in the U.S. only). Please be sure to give us the email address associated with your kindle…
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The Pastoral Imagination Journal is a companion to Eileen Campbell-Reed’s book Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life. The E-Journal is full color, 108 pages, and includes all the questions for reflection from the book with space to…
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Order a copy of Pastoral Imagination: Bringing Pastoral Ministry to Life. signed by author, Eileen Campbell-Reed
Read MoreIn early June three significant public figures in theological education died. Each one contributed through teaching and writing to the education of ministers and the doctoral training of seminary professors. They each held up distinct nodes in the ecology of…
Read MoreWhen we think it’s too late I was flipping through the Christian Century that came this week while I was in New York City for commencement. I couldn’t understand the Gothic church doorway, the rainbow light and the word…
Read MoreWelcome to the final episode of our series with Dr. Bonnie Miller-McLemore, and today we are talking about ways of blessing our callings. What a delight to continue our exploration of Bonnie’s new book Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies…
Read MoreToday I am remembering Kat Baker, my friend and fellow doctoral alum from Vanderbilt University. Her obituary reports that Dr. Katharine Haywood Baker, “passed away peacefully at her home on August 28, 2024, following a brief bout of pancreatic cancer.”…
Read MoreWe welcome Rev. Dr. Kris Bentley as our guest blogger this week to share what she learned writing her first book Bivocational Ministry: Field Notes for Congregations and Ministers. Kris teaches at Lexington Theological Seminary, directs research with bivocational ministers,…
Read MoreThis week we are exploring changed callings, times when our vocations have fractured or when new callings arrive in unexpected ways. I invite you to listen in to Part IV of my conversation with Dr. Bonnie Miller-McLemore. She reads from…
Read MoreWhat do you know firsthand about “conflicted callings”? Welcome to Part III of my conversation with Dr. Bonnie Miller-McLemore about her new book Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies about Calling. This week we are taking her third chapter about…
Read MoreIn this week’s episode of Three Minute Ministry Mentor we are talking about “blocked callings.” We are continuing our conversation with Bonnie Miller-McLemore. She is the author of the recent book Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies about Calling. I…
Read MoreFive Lenten Practices for Responding to this Moment Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. (Joel 2:1)* As Lent…
Read MoreFollow Your Bliss and Other Lies about Calling. Wow! What a provocative book title. In this episode we welcome Dr. Bonnie Miller-McLemore, author of this 2024 Oxford University Press book about vocation. She goes deep on the many complex ways…
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How do we cultivate a clear speaking and writing voice? How do we come into sounding like ourselves, speaking with honest and vulnerability on the page or in person? I want to offer four stepping stones to help you move…
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Today’s post falls on Epiphany, and that makes today a good day to call on our ancestors and descendants for help with our vocations. Looking back and looking forward is a good way to tune into the present moment. To…
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