Boundary Leadership: a Video-Based Small Group Curriculum
BOUNDARY LEADERSHIP AT EMORY The past three years of course work and research in the Emory University community have deeply shaped my view of how community is formed and how Continue Reading
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Ubuntu: A Restorative Approach to Anti-Bullying
The Project Chose Me! In August 1996, while serving on active duty in the U. S. Navy, I traveled to South Africa in conjunction with my responsibilities as an Equal Continue Reading
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COLLABORATIVE PREACHING
OCCASIONAL CO-PREACHING WITH CHURCH MEMBERS TO ALIGN THE MEDIUM WITH THE MESSAGE AND BUILD DISCIPLES What do the above sermons say before uttering a word? While a sermon proclaims the gospel, its Continue Reading
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Rendering Visible: Answering the Call to Preach Racial Justice in White Congregations
In August of 2014 an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. The Brown shooting happened on the heels Continue Reading
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Alliance of Baptists’ Women Clergy on Baptist Identity and Preaching the Magnificat
In 1987 the Alliance of Baptists formed after a split from the Southern Baptist Convention. The Alliance of Baptists affirmed women in ministry and celebrated their voices in the pulpit. Continue Reading
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Eucharistic Eating as a Model for Bridging the Divides of Our Time
The Reason I Chose This Project When I started the doctor of ministry program here at Candler, I was serving as Pastor of a Baptist church in Hyattsville, Maryland, just Continue Reading
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Embodying Resurrection: A Theology for Church Revitalization
Rising from the Ashes One of the most often remarked upon attributes of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church is the beauty of its sanctuary, most notably, its stained glass windows. Continue Reading
As We See Ourselves: Transforming The Inward Centered Congregation Through Differentiated Leadership and Focused Teaching Strategies
The Pastor appointed by the sitting bishop to serve a congregation is challenged to lead, grow, and develop an unfamiliar group of people with many implied common goals. This task Continue Reading
A Black Narrative Pulpit
A BLACK NARRATIVE PULPIT The Narrative Lectionary as a tool for Christian Transformation I love the Black Church and I cherish being part of a uniquely American tradition layered with Continue Reading
The Road From Presiding Elder to Superintendent to Strategist
The Road Began … I became a District Superintendent in 2011. At DS “Charm School” they called those of us gathered there “Chief Missional Strategists” and gave us no further Continue Reading
Exploring the Midweek Meal as a Place of Belonging
Why the Meal? When I was a child living in Georgia, my family would pile in the minivan to drive to Florida to visit my grandparents several times a year. Continue Reading
Toward a Contextual Ecclesiology
Smaller World: A Modern Day Parable iframe src=”https://spark.adobe.com/video/6CQFQecVdrywi/embed” width=100% height=540 Light in the Electric City: Toward a Contextual Ecclesiology at First Baptist Church What if that which has been unwell Continue Reading
Plenty Good Room: Reclaiming Hospitality in the Black Church
Why Hospitality in the Black Church? In contemporary American culture, we often hear how many congregations are in drastic decline and in some cases struggling to survive. This is especially Continue Reading
Intimacy with Christ through Contemplative Prayer
Seeking Intimacy with Christ Our church recently had a college Ministry Celebration Sunday to hear various testimonies from local college students about how the local Wesley Foundation http://www.ungwesley.org/ has deepened Continue Reading
Encountering Violent Texts in Scripture: A Study in Communal Hermenutics
Introduction One Sunday I was in worship at Christ United Methodist Church in Franklin, TN watching our children perform the musical, “Moses and the Freedom Fanatics”. I wasn’t in the Continue Reading
Doing the Work of Well-Being with African-American Men at LaGrange College: Identity, Context, Rage and Construction
This post serves as a very brief review and executive summary of Rev. Adam Roberts’ Doctor of Ministry project and paper, “Doing the Work of Well-Being with African American Males Continue Reading