Some years ago, I learned a practice for attending to what matters from two friends in a virtual writing group. The practice is to compile a list of “what I did that matters” this year. Writing and sharing the list…
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3MMM | Best of 2025 and Anticipating 2026
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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Writing Table Gallery
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 (2025)
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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3MMM | Episode 265: Black Women’s Stories
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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3MMM | Episode 264: Writing a Memoir
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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3MMM | Episode 263: Holding Hope
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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3MMM | Episode 262: Call the Roll
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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Guest Blog: Back to School Reboot by Amanda Smith
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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Guest Blog: Back to School Blessing by Melissa Collier Gepford
Editor’s Note: This week we welcome Rev. Melissa Collier Gepford as our guest to share her “Back to School” Blessing. Melissa is the Intergenerational Discipleship Coordinator of the Great Plains Conference (all of Kansas and Nebraska). Melissa supports United Methodist…
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Revising & Expanding the State of Clergy Report
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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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 260: Is it Too Late?
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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3MMM | Episode 259: Blessing Our Callings
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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Remembering Kat Baker
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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3MMM | Episode 258: Changed Callings
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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