“Finding Our Way” A New Study Guide for the #PandemicPastoring Report Recently, I took the new “Finding Our Way” Study Guide out for a test drive. I’m excited to tell you that it did exactly what we hoped! It got…
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3MMM | Episode 148: Easter Blessings
Today we want to offer you some Easter blessings and thanks. If you follow the Roman calendar, then you are now in Eastertide. It’s Easter Monday and that means it is time for laughing, jokes, putting your feet up for…
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3MMM | Holy Week Labyrinth
After a long trek through Lent, Holy Week is here, and we have a Labyrinth Guide for you. My hope is that helps you keep moving through this final week leading to Easter. More than 15 years ago, I created…
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3MMM | Episode 142: Lenten Practices
Have you figured out your Lenten practices yet?ย Lent is coming soon! This week in fact. Wait. What? Wasn’t Jesus just in diapers? Now we are sending him out alone? Into the wilderness to face wild beasts? Well actually. Jesus…
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Picturing Pastoral Imagination
Picturing Pastoral Imagination Share a photo a day for Lent Show the world what pastoral imagination looks like in your life and ministry How do you picture pastoral imagination? This Lenten season we want to invite you to reflect on…
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3MMM | Episode 64: Caring For Joy
Anyone else wake up tired? Easter Monday is a day for taking a big exhale. If you work in and for the church, you just finished the biggest week and high, holy Sunday of the year. You are also carrying…
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3MMM | Episode 21: Practicing Resurrection
It’s Eastertide! This joyful season is a continuation of our celebrations from Easter Sunday. For seven weeks each year the church observes a season of Eastertide. The scriptures focus on the resurrection stories of Jesus. I grew up in a…
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Easter – Practice Resurrection
These orchids from Thailand are endangered. Whole regions are absent their beauty although they used to grow wild in many places around the region. I took these photos as I walked the trails in an orchid farm near Chiang Mai.…
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Easterย ~ย Holy Week Remembered Blessedย Easter to you. This gallery of Lenten Lights is a remembrance of Holy Week. Whenย accounting theologically for the mystery of Easter, neitherย the agony nor theย pain of Holy Week entirely departs, yetย we practice the resurrection of letting it…
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Easter VIII – Ecclesiology and Ethnography I
Ecclesiology and Ethnography (church and research)ย Sitting outside this evening feeling the warm wind and watching the rolling clouds, I’m thinking back over the last couple of days. The Ecclesiology and Ethnography Conference unfolded Monday and Tuesday in St. Paul,…
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Commencement: Baptist Seminary of Kentucky Today I was honored to join the faculty, trustees, staff and students ofย Baptist Seminary of Kentuckyย at Georgetown Baptist Church for their Eighth Commencement Ceremony. They graciously invited me to bring an address. (For seminary graduation…
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The [Baptist] Conference on Sexuality A few quotes & tweets from the first day from the plenary speakers ย . . . . Jennell Williams Paris: sexual holiness is not an endless set of refusals.ย #SexandCovenant Paris: sexual feelings & behavior are…
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Cry of Absence The mornings are so hot already. Itโs only June. But heat + humidity = heat index of unbearable. I rolled out early to run this morning. Wednesdays rarely hold any exercise. Full days followed by church and…
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Take and Eat For a second year we are gardening on a grand scale. Well, to be honest, my husband is gardening on a grand scale and I’m supportive and help when I can. He and my daughter and a…
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