An occupational hazard of vocational ministry is that everything - Scripture, worship, conversations … life - is seen and experienced with an eye to using it in a sermon, bible study, class … or blog post! Clergy and ministry leaders are often so focused on...
Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver wrote these lines, sometimes titled “Instructions for Living,” when she was approaching her eighth decade of life. Last month, Jonathan Haidt invoked them to frame his NYU commencement address on the importance of “treasuring” one’s attention. We think that...
TMC Program Staff Adam Borneman and Adam Mixon speak with the Rev. Sherrad Hayes (Union Baptist Church, West Point, GA) about the "long game" of spiritual transformation, the difference between the immediate and the urgent, and the importance of our core identity in Christ. Episode Transcript. ...
The Problem We Share There are a few things about human relationships that are absolutely unavoidable. We all change, and we will disappoint one another. We all have the capacity to act selfishly and get on someone’s nerves. And we all want to be seen, heard,...
If your church board feels tired and confused from time to time, trust that you are in good company. Compared to what church boards dealt with in earlier decades, today’s leaders are facing a tsunami of challenges across the world and inside the church. In a...
TMC Program Staff Jennifer Watley Maxell and Adam Borneman follow up our earlier conversation about facilitation, discussing Jesus' model of letting silence linger; understanding that information itself is not transformative; and how learning to move toward tension together can be productive and faithful. Listen to the...
As we head into summer, we’ve been thinking about how we can best serve you in this space. One thing we don’t want to do is assume we know what’s on your mind or what would be most helpful for us to write about in the...
TMC Program Staff Adam Borneman, Jennifer Watley Maxell, and Mark Ramsey talk with Elizabeth Lynn (Shifting Ground) about creating space for deeper reflection, alignment vs. agreement, and why facilitation is a critical tool for all areas of ministry. Contact TMC Staff about Facilitation Training. Episode Transcript....
Over the past few weeks, we have explored what it means to be relentlessly relational, not just as a tagline for our work, but as a lens for thinking about ministry more broadly. What does it actually look like to prioritize relationships in a culture...