“The rush back to normalcy is aggressive. Give us a minute.” Unknown This morning as I began my day and clicked onto Instagram, this was the quote that greeted me. I couldn’t comment “Amen” fast enough and I wasn’t alone. Within an hour hundreds of people...
37 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Matthew 26:37 Life is hard. Ministry is difficult. These are perhaps the understatements of the year. But life and ministry are even more difficult when we are confronted with...
For about the 20th time over the past 6 weeks, it happened again this morning. I got on the phone with an extraordinarily gifted, sharp, experienced, faithful pastor who recently began to gently nudge his congregation on some culturally controversial issues (you know what they...
Getting an ending right is not easy. Just ask the writers of popular TV shows like Dexter, Game of Thrones, The Good Place, or Seinfeld. The last episode of each of these series left fans confused and disappointed, muttering to themselves, “Wait, what? That can’t...
The Easter accounts in the gospels feature a lot of running. Resurrection may cause that in people. In John, the women and the disciples are practically running a relay race from and to the empty tomb. In Matthew, the followers of Jesus are told in...
“When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.” Matthew 28:17 At the beginning of the pandemic, a friend was asking me about my thoughts on quarantine life. I told her I didn’t think it was going to be as quick or easy as some...
There’s been no shortage of reflection and conversation over the past year about what’s been revealed by our multiple societal crises. So many dynamics – economic, social, political, cultural, and indeed ecclesial – that lay under the surface suddenly came to the fore in jarring...
We’ve just celebrated Easter 2021. We’ve endured a full year of this pandemic, political and social unrest, and likely an untold number of personal struggles that accompany these external pressures. We have had to discern a new way of being in a world that feels...
Featured in this week's Christian Century, written by Carrie Graham, Austin, TX Cohort Facilitator and Founder of the Church Lab: [embeddoc url="https://mministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Carrie-Graham-in-CC-002.pdf" viewer="google"] Rev. Carrie Graham is the founder and pastor of The Church Lab. While at Fuller Theological Seminary, she had a worshipful and transformative experience...