Commentary

July 28, 2013

Ambassadors Celebrate

Homecoming and Coming of Age Today was the end of our third year of Ambassador visits. We stayed home and had worship, followed by a party. […]
July 24, 2013

Addressing Fear in the Pew

How to keep fear from crippling your congregation Sometimes when analyzing mission and ministry it’s helpful to put ourselves in the pew—to sit figuratively next to […]
July 22, 2013

On Looking People in the Eye

Preferring to Work with Strangers Today’s church is in trouble. Everybody in the church knows it. Some (fairly few) congregations are still large enough to get […]
July 18, 2013

Teaching Hospitality in the Modern Church

It’s Got to Be Carefully Taught Hospitality is a theme of today’s lectionary texts, most notably the story of how Jesus was welcomed by Mary and […]
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