This is a mother’s day prayer. Yet it is not like the ones I grew up hearing. This prayer is more of a psalm and a lament. It lifts up to God the painful and unspeakable facets of mothering and…
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Deep Peace: A prayer for loss and longing and love
Sometimes life and loss and longing and love are more than our words can contain. Through these challenging days, only a prayer of silence is enough. Because the deep peace of silence is all that can hold life as it…
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3MMM | Episode 106: Eileen Campbell-Reed on Contemplative Prayer
Contemplative prayer This weekend I shared the “Contemplative Prayer” video with some of my new chaplain friends who serve hospitals and prisons in Cuba. I was glad to share this video in particular because it has new Spanish closed captioning.…
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A Prayer for Teachers
We can always use a prayer for teachers. From preschool to grad school, this time of year is usually punctuated by joyous pictures of students and teachers returning to classrooms. But this year is a strange one. Not like any…
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3MMM | Episode 27: Preaching and Prayer
What is the role of prayer and meditation in the practice of ministry? I have worked on that question for many years. It became focused as a question around the time that I finished my doctoral studies. In these last…
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3MMM | Episode 14: Contemplative Prayer
Prayer. What is the connection between the practice of prayer and the practice of ministry? The responses to this question could fill many pages of many books. (My own responses fill many posts in this blog.) The connections we make…
Read MoreOrdinary Time – An Evening of Prayer and Worship for Unity
Last night pastors, congregations, professors and students gathered from all around Nashville, Tennessee, to remember the nine men and women who were brutally murdered in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17 at Mother Emmanuel AME Church. We met at Woodmont Baptist…
Read MoreAdvent III – #AdventVigil Prayers
Advent Vigil O Lord, deliver us from believing that surveillance is a substitute for relationship. Turn us away from thinking cameras alone can deter violence. Give us instead new eyes to see one another with trust and new hearts to…
Read MoreOrdinary Time V – Prayers for Ferguson
Prayers for #Ferguson – Tuesday Yesterday I posted a sweet message about my child’s back-to-school day. Today I’m posting a prayer for the children of #Ferguson who were scheduled to begin classes today, August 19, 2014. Schools will remain closed this…
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3MMM | Remembering Craig Dykstra
In 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…
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3MMM | Episode 257: Conflicted Callings
What 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…
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3MMM | Episode 255: Five Lenten Practices
Five 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…
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3MMM | Episode 250: Need for Silence
If I asked you today, what would you tell me about your need for silence? In this week’s episode, I ask Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow about the thread of silence that runs through his “faith montage.” Bruce’s new book Everything Good…
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3MMM | Episode 248: How to Worship
Today we are considering the very important question of how to worship? This is our final episode from my conversation with Rev. Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes. What a joy to share Cláudio’s enthusiasm and wisdom for practices of creativity, sustaining the…
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3MMM | Episode 247: How to Pray
In my conversation with Rev. Dr Cláudio Carvalhaes this week, we talk about how to pray. We begin with one of Claudio’s recent projects and books Liturgies from Below: Praying with People at the End of the World. The project…
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3MMM | Episode 246: Sustaining Creativity
This week we welcome Rev. Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes for a conversation about sustaining creativity. In our first conversation last week we talked with Cláudio about how he created the play “When Wajcha Meets Pachamama.” Watch or listen to Episode 245…
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3MMM | Episode 244: Teaching Pastoral Imagination
I want to talk with you this week about teaching pastoral imagination. As we launch a new year of theological education in the US, I am hearing again: “pastors and ministers are not fully prepared for their work.” Recent studies…
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Teaching Resource Gallery
Welcome to the Teaching Resource Gallery! We created it especially for seminary and college professors, congregational and faith community teachers, Clinical Pastoral Education supervisors and educators, and anyone looking for teaching or mentoring resources on topics related to pastoral imagination…
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3MMM | Episode 242: Blessings for School by Erin Robinson Hall
This week our guest post “Blessings for School” comes to us from author, minister, mama, and 3MMM Team member, Erin Robinson Hall. As we approach the new school year, we are excited to offer a short series of guest posts…
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3MMM | Episode 231: Paying Attention
What is the purpose of Lent? Learning to pay attention. And what is the purpose of paying attention? Being present to God and each other and all of creation. And what happens when we pay attention and become more present…
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3MMM | Episode 228: Lenten Spiritual Practices
Three Questions to ask about Lenten Spiritual Practices I grew up thinking that Lenten spiritual practices always meant giving something up. Fasting. Giving up chocolate, coffee, or meat as a daily reminder to pray. And for quite a few years…
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