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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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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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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Today we are considering the very important question of how to worship? This is our final episode from my conversation with Rev. Dr. Clรกudio Carvalhaes. What a joy to share Clรกudio’s enthusiasm and wisdom for practices of creativity, sustaining the…
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In my conversation with Rev. Dr Clรกudio Carvalhaes this week, we talk about how to pray. We begin with one of Claudioโs recent projects and books Liturgies from Below: Praying with People at the End of the World. The project…
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This week we welcome Rev. Dr. Clรกudio Carvalhaes for a conversation about sustaining creativity. In our first conversation last week we talked with Clรกudio about how he created the play โWhen Wajcha Meets Pachamama.โ Watch or listen to Episode 245…
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I’m excited to welcome my friend and colleague Rev. Dr. Clรกudio 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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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: โpastors and ministers are not fully prepared for their work.โ Recent studies…
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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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This week our guest post โBlessings for Schoolโ comes to us from author, minister, mama, and 3MMM Team member, Erin Robinson Hall. As we approach the new school year, we are excited to offer a short series of guest posts…
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This week our guest post “Teaching Gospels with Film” comes to us from Elizabeth-Anne Lovell, 3MMM Team member and adjunct instructor at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. As we approach the new school year, we are excited to offer a…
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This week our guest post “Teaching Religious Studies” comes to us from Dr. Adam D.J. Brett, 3MMM Team member and adjunct instructor. As we approach the new school year, we are excited to offer a series of guest posts about…
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Callie Swanlundโs 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 Callieโs love letter to remind you and me of many…
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Taking out the trash reminded me how transition and grief are messy and complicatedย 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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Itโs 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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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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This week we are back with Rev. Callie Swanlund and talking about what it means to live into a sustainable and wholehearted ministry. Tomorrow May 7 is a big day for Callie and her new bookย From Weary to Wholehearted: A…
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We are celebrating a new book for clergy and lay leaders: From Weary to Wholehearted is landing soon! This “love letter” from Rev. Callie Swanlund is a remedy for these days of clergy isolation, exhaustion, and burnout. Callie is a…
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The end of March often arrives, and I realize that I didnโt mark the anniversary or celebrate my ordination. This year Iโm celebrating on March 19. It is the day I was ordained. And Iโm happy to share a few…
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Where were you on March 11, 2020, four years ago? The start of the COVID-19 pandemic was different for everyone by a few days. March 11 was the day the coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. On March 9, I…
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What is the purpose of Lent? Learning to pay attention. And what is the purpose of paying attention? Being present to God and each other and all of creation. And what happens when we pay attention and become more present…
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