By: Dave Watermulder on May 30, 2019
There is a very old (and not very funny) joke about pastors and their schedules. It goes something along the lines that a pastor only works “one day a week”. I have been told some version of this quip more times than I can count, often when running into church members or community members in…
By: Jennifer Williamson on May 30, 2019
Through my research, I’m coming to the conclusion that missionaries will thrive and bear fruit when they are intentional about working collaboratively with national partners. But this conclusion is based on faith, not sight. I can’t point to examples where this approach has proven effective, I can only stand by what I know to be…
By: Colleen Batchelder on May 29, 2019
How do you comfort someone who’s grasping onto the hand that she’s held for forty-seven years? How do you form words that ease the pain and bring some sense of peace? How do you fill the deafening silence with hope when one’s last breath makes the world stand still? The Rev Dr. Emma Percy, Chaplain…
By: Jay Forseth on May 29, 2019
While searching Google Scholar for book reviews on this week’s reading, I was immediately struck by an article that referenced What Clergy Do: Especially When It Looks Like Nothing by Emma Percy. In a journal called “Rural Theology” the authors stated four situations that might cause the greatest isolation for a local church pastor: [1] Bi-vocational;…
By: Jake Dean-Hill on May 28, 2019
Knowing that we would be hearing from the author of this week’s book while in Oxford made me especially interested in Emma Percy’s book, What Clergy Do: Especially When it Looks Like Nothing. Once I dove in I appreciated it even more, mostly because she capitalized on the metaphor of mothering in reference to the…
By: Mike on May 28, 2019
Emma Percy’s What Clergy Do is a metaphorical glimpse at ministry, which examines the similarities between motherhood and priesthood. Percy’s “integrated life” principle is a key theme in the book that I plan on leveraging into my research on spiritual warfare.[1] I believe the “mothering” traits described by Percy will successfully blend into the armor…
By: Kyle Chalko on May 28, 2019
Ok folks. No satire here today. I really like this book. What Clergy Do: Especially When it Looks Like Nothing is an interesting and encouraging read for those in ministry. The thesis of the book was that an underacknowledged metaphor for pastoring a congregation is motherhood. And this analogy was helpful in many ways. In…
By: Jennifer Williamson on May 27, 2019
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By: Dan Kreiss on May 26, 2019
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By: Mike on May 23, 2019
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By: Kyle Chalko on May 20, 2019
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By: Kyle Chalko on May 18, 2019
Hear me out. I am after all, here to be heard. I’m not here to walk into an intellectual safe place, and that has been the arrogance of higher education to think that was their purpose. I’m here to have connection… not to feel threatened. I simply want a safe space to be able to…
By: Greg on May 17, 2019
Having students come and spend weeks overseas gives our team an opportunity to shape those that desire to be used by God. Over the last eight or nine years we have seen a shift in the students that have come. When we began we had a list of rules and communication policies for the purpose…
By: Trisha Welstad on May 17, 2019
This week I am preaching on loving the Lord with all of our mind. Our church is in the middle of a series on living out Jesus’ command to love God with our whole self. Beginning with Romans 12:2 which says, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of…
By: Shawn Hart on May 17, 2019
If you want to make a point right off the bat, title your book, “The Coddling of the American Mind.” In fact, it is this message that is the main principle that my entire dissertation is being based up; is it possible that even the church as a whole has become so consumed with reaching…
By: Jake Dean-Hill on May 16, 2019
The book by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure, was very interesting and rather entertaining and concerning all at the same time. The authors wrote the book out of concern for our youth and to dispel the…
By: Jason Turbeville on May 16, 2019
I want to start this with a simple question, raise your hand if in the past 5 years, you have seen some ugly trend and not blamed the group known as millennials. My guess is most of us have done this with some sort of eye roll and derisive statement. In their book The Coddling of…
By: Jean Ollis on May 16, 2019
i·ro·ny1 /ˈīrənē/ A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. I’ve spent several days working on my end of year self-evaluation at the university – it’s a painfully long reflective narrative on every component of my job (this year my narrative…
By: Colleen Batchelder on May 16, 2019
The beginning introduction enraptures readers on a fictitious narrative that weaves in and out of the relativistic, nationalistic, and idealistic nature of the foundation of one’s American culture. Greg Lukianoff, attorney and author[1] and Dr. Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business[2] challenge their readers to understand that the very…
By: Dave Watermulder on May 16, 2019
I have a bad habit. I am one of those people who share news stories and articles that often have an underlying message attached. For example, I sent my brother-in-law an article from the Mayo Clinic entitled, “Walking: Trim Your Waistline, Improve Your Health”.[1] I have sent my wife numerous articles with encouraging lines like…
