Aug 13, 2013 | ministry, scripture
Articles on clergy burnout trend occasionally through social media, and a recent fascination has been Mark Love’s “Eleven Things You Might Not Understand About Your Minister,” a list of eleven insights that appear to reflect Love’s own...
Apr 7, 2013 | Easter, ministry, sermon, vocation
So Easter Sunday comes and goes. We delight for a reason to wear our best spring outfits and share a good meal. We sing our Easter hymns triumphantly. We celebrate the good news of an empty tomb, the satisfying victory of life over death. Then we enter the season of...
Feb 3, 2013 | blessing, ministry, scripture
From the Big Event 6.0, a blessing for RevGalBlogPals and for friends & colleagues in ministry: “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your...
Sep 27, 2012 | church, grace, ministry, sermon
I want to be great. I want to be great at everything I do, and I give myself a hard time for not being brilliantly excellent 100% of the time — as a pastor, a preacher, a mother, a writer. I long to be stellar … and not just to be stellar, but to be known...
Mar 8, 2012 | ministry, writing
“There are many days when the only notable difference between being a solo pastor and a single parent is my wardrobe.” Read the rest of my blogpost for Alive Now…..
Jan 23, 2012 | church, ministry
Or is burnout intrinsic to ministry?Is the crisis whether we burn out … or how we burn out?Since this past Advent season when I watched the sanctuary fill with lights — lights on the Advent wreath, candelabra alongside the pews, and “Silent...
