Ministry in Transition

Healthy, Adaptive, Joyous: I help folks name the truth about how hard church life is these days. Whether PCUSA, UCC, (or anywhere in the mainline) being honest is the starting point for freeing up considerable energy locked up in denial, fear, and grief. A healthy community learns and changes, opening new channels for ministry…

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Borrowed Love December 2024

Are There Any Questions?

a couple core values videos from a previous congregation…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mdf5e2zv0k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DISkvG7XsPw

Musical Arrangements: Congregational music shapes me. Piano, guitar and arranging is also a creative outlet.

A couple favorite Lenten tunes tied together…

“All Creatures” from a CD a few years back

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Originalism

In regards to The US Constitution an “Originalist” tries to apply the law as it was intended when it was written. This as opposed to catering to contemporary concerns and applications. This latter, more typically liberal view is sometimes referred to as the “Living Constitution” approach. There are entire philosophical schools of…

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Hartley’s Band

Felt the thud. People started scrambling… Non-denominational churches were coming into their heyday when I graduated from seminary in 1987. U.S. Mainline congregations accustomed to dominating American religion for 2 centuries were badly drifting. We just assumed we were too big to fail. Down south pastor friends were already accustomed to being…

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Quarantine Day 11

Quarantine Day 11 – How did we get here? I asked. – What do you mean? Julie was looking down over an edge where the sea of winter dead grass became a two-foot wide running gulley; the water was pulling us somehow. I meant How did this hike that began as mere…

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