What will your invisible legacy be? Where have you given of yourself in a gracious,yet hidden way? When did you donate to an urgent cause,yet spoke of it to no one? How have you put in a good word that…
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3MMM | Episode 158: #PandemicPastoring and Women
What do we know about #PandemicPastoring and women? How has it impacted clergywomen? How have lay leaders been crucial for keeping the church going? Since the declaration of a global pandemic in March of 2020, I continue to be in…
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3MMM | Episode 157: Spiritual Well-Being
Sunday, July 3 I sat down to meditate for 10 minutes this morning. It was a disaster. No effort to pray contemplatively is really wasted. But I was a mess. I vacillated between almost falling asleep and my mind being…
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#PandemicPastoring | A New Report
Download the #PandemicPastoring Report today! At Three Minute Ministry Mentor (3MMM), we began focusing on #PandemicPastoring in March of 2020. By early summer we could see the impact on ministry would not be short-lived. So we continued collecting and sharing…
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3MMM | Episode 156: #MeTooReckoning Self-Paced Workshop Coming Soon
There is a reckoning underway. Southern Baptists are feeling the shockwaves of it over the past month. The release of the Guidepost Solutions Report in May brought to light hundreds of known abuse cases, and also more than two decades…
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3MMM | Episode 155: Celebrate Pride Part 3
Today is our final post for Celebrate PRIDE this week! We are sharing stories of ministers in the Learning Pastoral Imagination (LPI) Project. Every time we tell a story or share a narrative from our research, we believe it becomes…
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3MMM | Episode 154: Celebrate Pride Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of Celebrate PRIDE this week! We are sharing stories of ministers who identify as LGBTIQA+ in the Learning Pastoral Imagination (LPI) Project. This week we drop in on two ministers at the stage of deciding on…
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3MMM | Episode 153: Celebrate Pride Part 1
This week we are celebrating PRIDE month with stories of ministers in the Learning Pastoral Imagination (LPI) Project. Every time we tell a story or share a narrative from our research, we believe it becomes a source of acknowledgement and…
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3MMM | Episode 152: Ordination Blessing
In the past nine days I attended two seminary graduations, three worship services where we blessed graduates, and one live-stream ordination. Each event gave me a sense of joy. Yet the joy was also rooted in something more complicated. Something…
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