hind·er verb create difficulties for (someone or something), resulting in delay or obstruction Peter’s education as a follower of Jesus didn’t end with Jesus’ ascension. The Book of Acts highlights God’s relentless work on opening Peter up to hard challenges. These surprises for Peter largely focused...
Digging a Deeper Well will go on hiatus starting next week for what we think is a terrific reason. Your co-authors are going to be married in nine days and then take a couple weeks to travel afterwards. When we met almost five years ago, initially...
Program Director Adam Borneman speaks with minister and therapist the Rev. Erica St. Bernard (Your Life's Well) the importance of personal invitation in a time of isolation, building communities of trust and burden-bearing, and the challenges and possibilities of hybrid ministry....
I wrote these words before I learned of the mass shootings that occurred over this weekend. My first inclination was to scrap them but then I read them again and they remain true to me… Pardon me if they seem a bit preachy but here goes… At...
It was a casual aside by Seth Godin, during a recent interview with Debbie Millman. Talking about leadership that is resilient and bold, Godin pointed to the actor Gene Kelly in his iconic performance in Singing in the Rain. He noted that Kelly closes the...
Content Curator Adam Mixon speaks with the Rev. Kristy Farber (Mercer Island Presbyterian Church, WA) and the Rev. Dr. Amy Wiles (Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa) about good places to go and cry, the difference between loneliness and being alone, and the importance of being...
Over the next several weeks we'll be reflecting on how congregations and other ministry contexts serve as spaces of trust-building, mending social fabric, and faith formation that joins people in hope across difference. Here, I want to consider for a moment what an expression of prophetic...
We had the opportunity to spend a couple of hours recently with a gifted group of church board leaders. Among the several questions we discussed with this group, one seemed to register most deeply, judging by people’s widespread sighs, forward leans, and nods of assent. How...
The Ministry Collaborative program staff (Jennifer Watley Maxell, Mark Ramsey, Adam Borneman, and Adam Mixon) talk about the prioritizing humility and compromise, examining a community's personality, and the trap of sorting ourselves. Click here to read Adam Borneman's blog post, "The Front Porch, the Living Room,...