In this conversation, Amy Valdez Barker speaks with Dr. William Watley, renowned AME pastor, preacher, author, and senior advisor to TMC cohorts focusing on preaching, and Rev. Joe Clifford, pastor of Myers Park Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, and a longtime facilitator with TMC. Together they...
In this recent TMC podcast conversation, Tom Long and Cynthia Hale join host Mark Ramsey to discuss where they still see joy and hope in preaching, the pressures and risks of speaking truthfully in a toxic public climate, and why authentic, Spirit-led boldness and deep...
You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary. – Frederick Buechner Almost every church building has a room like this. It might differ in style and furnishing. It might be called a parlor, a lounge, a meeting space. It might be named for some long-forgotten saint of...
Tell me the old, old story, Of unseen things above, Of Jesus and His glory, Of Jesus and His love; … Tell me the old, old story, Tell me the old, old story, Tell me the old, old story, Of Jesus and His love. Arabella Katherine Hankey (1834-1911) Holy week for...
Our TMC team continues to explore what this moment requires of ministry leaders. Not louder voices, not faster movement, not better branding, but something deeper. We are not short on passion. If anything, passion is everywhere, urgent, reactive, constant. But as Adam Mixon reminds us, “the...
One of my most significant callings as a father is to make sure my children understand the real value of the internet. So naturally we watch a lot of funny cat videos on YouTube. On one such occasion, my eight-year-old chuckled at some absurd cat behavior, turned...
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Among the many pastoral responsibilities that clergy and congregational church leaders juggle, our prophetic responsibility to defend the faith and tell the truth about what’s happening in our world is one of the most complex, least discussed, and arguably most urgent, given the social and...
There seems to be a burgeoning cottage industry of posters that feature Albert Einstein saying something inspirational. Alas, life can rarely be reduced to a poster, no matter what it says or who supposedly said it. And, in the matter of Einstein, it turns out...