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...
TMC Program Staff Ryan Bonfiglio, Adam Mixon, Mark Ramsey, and Adam Borneman discuss the April data from the Hartford Center for Religion Research on church attendance trends, as well as what it might - and most certainly doesn't - tell us about ministry today. Read the...
Did you see this snafu at a recent Arizona college graduation? An AI system that was supposed to read graduates' names at a ceremony malfunctioned, skipping and mispronouncing names, robbing many students of their once-in-a-lifetime moment of recognition. This was predictably followed by boos and...
TMC Program Staff Mark Ramsey, Adam Mixon, Ryan Bonfiglio, and Adam Borneman discuss the importance of bearing witness to both injustice and joy, why resurrection calls us to solidarity with those who suffer, and how prophetic preaching ought to be marked by energizing hope. Episode Transcript....
Recently, I had the opportunity to join one of our TMC cohorts on a visit to Greece where we explored the Holy Spirit’s work through Paul and his colleagues in Macedonia with the Jews in diaspora. As I looked back at the hundreds of photographs I...
Ryan Burge, amplifying the results of the longstanding Pew Religious Landscape Survey, wants us to pay closer attention to the data on belief in the United States—and especially the data on what underlies belief. How often are people thinking about the meaning and purpose of...
TMC Program Staff Mark Ramsey and Beth Daniel (with a cameo from our producer, Marthame Sanders) discuss Walter Brueggemann's three-fold assessment of the prophetic tasks of the church: to tell the truth in a society that lives in illusion, grieve in a society that practices...
According to a recent story, Pope Leo XIV ran into a wall of sorts when he tried to change his contact information with his bank in Chicago. About two months after the Chicago-born cardinal became Pope Leo XIV and moved to Vatican City, he put in...