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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Guest Blog: Genuine Clergy Appreciation by Sarah Jackson Shelton
Editor’s note: This week we welcome Rev. Sarah Jackson Shelton as our guest. Sarah helps us think about how to offer genuine appreciation for clergy. A retired Baptist preacher with 44 years of ordained ministry, she now serves as Pastor…
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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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Guest Post | Bivocational Ministry by Kris Bentley
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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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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