Black Women’s Stories with Dr. Charisse Gillett This week in a final conversation in our series with Dr. Charisse Gillett, we invite you to share our delight in Black women’s stories. Today Dr. Gillett, president of Lexington Theological Seminary, reads…
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This month I am sharing Advent reflections and stories. They gather up moments that I love. And they bring to life blessing and promise, silence and singing, grief and vulnerability, and moments of joy and hope. I am also recording…
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Sometimes help is literally in the palm of our hands and we cannot see it. Sometimes our ability to see or imagine or welcome the things we need in life is blocked by the kind of deeply seated beliefs and…
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My training in psychology prepared me to look with careful attention to the past and to analyze how stories from family and childhood experiences that shape our lives. Not just our personal stories, but also stories embedded in religious rituals…
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Learning Stories of Advent (2011) One of the many gifts of following the church year and circling through the life of Jesus and the life of the church every twelve months, is its orientation of newcomers into the practice of…
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Welcome to Season Four of Three Minute Ministry Mentor! Here, you will find links to weekly episodes: blogs, videos, and guest blogs. Season Seven includes topical videos, interviews, remembrances, and inspiration for cultivating pastoral imagination. Follow Your Bliss | blog…
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Best of practice in 2025 This morning, on the fifth day of Christmas, we want to share some of our best from 2025 and anticipate 2026. So we are looking back to what landed most often with our readers last…
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The Writing Table Gallery is a celebration of more than five years of nurturing community, building habits, and finishing our projects! We are happy to share fruit of our community’s labors. We hope you will explore some of the books…
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Advent Blessings for Worship Leaders Stewarding the mysteries of Advent and bringing them to the people is spiritual and theological work. Often it remains hidden even from worshipers themselves. Ministers, we want to acknowledge your vocation, and appreciate your labors.…
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Writing a Memoir with Dr. Charisse Gillett Today we are talking once more with Dr. Charisse Gillett, president of Lexington Theological Seminary and author of That Little Girl. Our topic today is writing a memoir. We are also going to explore…
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Holding Hope with Dr. Charisse Gillett We are in that time of year when school, church, and family can start to feel overwhelming. Holiday season is underway! I was in a store the day before Halloween. One aisle displayed Halloween…
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This week we begin a series of conversations with Dr. Charisse Gillett, president of Lexington Theological Seminary. She published a memoir this summer. The book honors both her own young life and also speaks to the lives of young people…
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Editor’s note: This week we welcome Dr. Richard Olson as our guest. Richard helps us pay attention to the voices and needs of young clergy. A retired pastor, pastoral counselor, and professor of pastoral theology, Richard aspired to be a…
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Editor’s Note: This week we welcome Rev. Amanda Smith as our guest. Pastor Amanda helps us think about the back-to-school season as a time to reboot, refresh, and restart aspects of ministry in the congregation. She serves as Co-Pastor at…
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NASHVILLE, TN – Dr. Eileen Campbell-Reed has won two grants to revise and expand “The State of Women and LGBTIQ Clergy in the U.S.” Data collection begins August 1, as Campbell-Reed takes a new one-year position with Vanderbilt Divinity School.…
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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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When 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…
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Welcome 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…
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Today 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.”…
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We 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,…
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This 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…
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