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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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 256: Blocked Callings
In 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…
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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 254: Follow Your Bliss
Follow 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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3MMM | Episode 253: Writing Voice
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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3MMM | Episode 252: Ancestors & Descendants
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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3MMM | Episode 251: Reconstructing Faith
Every generation must figure out how to work out their need for deconstructing and reconstructing faith. This spiritual and theological work feels at once exciting and urgent, and also risk-filled and terrifying. It isn’t merely an intellectual exercise, deconstructing faith…
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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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Beyond “American Thanksgiving”
This year I want to think beyond “American Thanksgiving” and its usual traditions. I want to share with you my commitment to understanding, learning from, and supporting Indigenous Peoples. Many of them are seeking to care for and “reclaim stewardship…
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3MMM | Episode 249: Writing About Faith
Our guest this week is Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow, and he is sharing his new book and his process of writing about faith. Bruce is an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church USA, a speaker, and the author of five books…
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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 245: Creative Process
I’m excited to welcome my friend and colleague Rev. Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes to talk with me and you about many things, starting this week with creative process. Claudio is a professor, minister, liturgist, artist, and author. A year ago he…
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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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3MMM | Episode 243: Back-to-School Wisdom 2024
We asked some wise pastors and professors for a some back-to-school wisdom for 2024, and they generously shared it. You will find their wisdom in this post for students of all ages, parents, teachers, and seminarians. We hope you will…
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3MMM | Episode 239: You are NOT alone
Callie Swanlund‘s new book is part of a beautiful and growing effort by writers addressing ministers and church leaders, reminding us, you are not alone! From Weary to Wholehearted is Callie’s love letter to remind you and me of many…
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3MMM | Episode 238: Transition and Grief
Taking out the trash reminded me how transition and grief are messy and complicated I move four dusty pink vases, two glass candy dishes, and an old cigar box off the brown microwave cart. I check the drawer and cabinet.…
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3MMM | Episode 237: Writing with Support
It’s hard to believe that an hour of writing with support each weekday is enough to really accomplish anything. And one of my Vanderbilt professors used to say, If you are going to be a successful scholar and publish enough…
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3MMM | Episode 236: Unearthing Treasure
The last seven weeks of my life have been like no other, and they have included unearthing treasure among other things. On Good Friday we began the process of taking over finances, legalities, and material stuff to support my parents…
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