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Wendell Berry and Working in Place with Mary Berry

What might farming and nurturing Christian communities have in common?

Cripping the Clergy: Embracing Disabled Leadership

Mentally I strike a line through a job posting because I know what this parish means by energetic: non-disabled.

From ‘Drinking from a Firehose’ to Drinking from Living Water

Shortly after being elected Bishop of the Diocese of East Tennessee, I first heard it. As a new bishop, I would be “drinking from...

From Passion Project to Ministry Partner: The Story of Church Communications

When I first embarked on what would become Church Communications, I never imagined that it would evolve into the vibrant, multifaceted organization it is...

Confronting Systemic Homophobia with Biblical Social Justice

Editor's Preface: This is the second of two essays on parish ministry and sexuality. The first essay may be found here. The two authors...

Loving the Bible, Part 2: Teaching Others to Love Scripture

Editor’s Note: This is the second of two essays on loving scripture. The first is here. Because I did not receive good biblical formation as...

Making Music Singable

This essay is adapted from Neal’s book, How to Hit the Ground Running: A Quick-start Guide for Congregations with New Leadership, Revised, scheduled for...

A Minister’s Widow Turns Toward Jesus

Karen Stiller focuses on several words — fruit, body, money, hospitality, humility, beauty, church, remembering, and sorrow — to explain how holiness might become real in our lives.

Sent to Coventry, Called to Windsor

Having been “sent to Coventry” in 2008 to be Bishop of the Diocese of Coventry in the West Midlands of England, I found myself...

Foolishness to the Clowns

In St. Mary’s Chapel at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, near the back on the epistle side, is a window commemorating the late Michael Ramsey,...

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