Executive Director Mark Ramsey speaks with the Rev. Carrie Graham (The Church Lab) about the growing sentiment against dialogue, her work with people who don't like church, and the emerging post-COVID yearning for something beyond ourselves. ...
Executive Director Mark Ramsey speaks with the Rev. Carrie Graham (The Church Lab) about the growing sentiment against dialogue, her work with people who don't like church, and the emerging post-COVID yearning for something beyond ourselves. ...
In part two of this round table conversation, the Ministry Collaborative program staff (Adam Mixon, Ryan Bonfiglio, Jennifer Watley Maxell, Adam Borneman, and Mark Ramsey) talk about the importance of wilderness, the problem of making assumptions, and puncturing our bubbles of invincibility....
In part one of this round table conversation, the Ministry Collaborative program staff (Adam Mixon, Ryan Bonfiglio, Jennifer Watley Maxell, Adam Borneman, and Mark Ramsey) talk about orientation, disorientation, and reorientation, and the critical role that they have in different parts of our lives and...
Content Curator Adam Mixon speaks with the Rev. Dr. Tyshawn Gardner (Samford University) and and the Rev. Dr. Tom Long (Candler School of Theology) about the art of preaching, speaking truth to both the powerful and the powerless, and mining hope out of mountains of...
Executive Director Mark Ramsey speaks with Dr. Jared Alcantára (George W. Truett Theological Seminary) about the importance of addressing trauma in the Body of Christ, his book The Practices of Preaching, and what we can learn from first century preachers about thinking strategically....
Program Director Adam Borneman speaks with Mary Kay DuChene (Co-Director, LeaderWise) about the epidemic of isolation, the church's promise of community, and her co-authored book on clergy loneliness....
Program Director Adam Borneman speaks with David Zahl (Mockingbird Ministries; Christ Episcopal Church, Charlottesville) about finding a gracious view of others and self, the limitations of self-progress, and his latest book....
Content Curator Adam Mixon shares his reflection on the difference between grief and mourning, the wisdom of John P. Kees and Frederick Buechner, and his own vacillation between joy and sorrow. This reflection originally appeared on our blog....
Pilgrimage Formation Curator Ryan Bonfiglio shares his reflections on our theologies of deathlessness, the difference between recharging and resurrecting, and what an unrecognizable transformation might mean for us. This writing originally appeared on our blog....