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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PEACE BE WITH YOU, REST IN PEACE
PEACE BE WITH YOU USING SCRIPTURE TO ADDRESS SPIRITUAL DISTRESS AT THE END OF LIFE For ten years, I have ministered in urban areas as a hospital chaplain (initially in Continue Reading
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Faith Community Support of the Atlanta/Fulton County Pre-Arrest Diversion Initiative
Synopsis of the Project Saint Mark United Methodist Church and Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Atlanta, Georgia collaborated together with the new Atlanta/Fulton County Pre-Arrest Diversion pilot program to Continue Reading
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Just As I Am: Believer’s Baptism and Intellectual Disability
Introduction I have a friend named Billy. Billy has been a part of my worshiping community at First Baptist Church, Winchester, Virginia for about six years. He sits toward the Continue Reading
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The Importance of Reflexivity in Cultivating Pastoral Preaching in Response to Communal Trauma
Laying down your life means making your own faith and doubt, hope and despair, joy and sadness, courage and fear available to others as ways of getting in touch with Continue Reading
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Halibut for the Homeless: How the Gift of Wasted Food Fostered Friendship in a Local Congregation
Purpose of Project The thrust of my project represents an effort to lead Kingsway Christian Church to find a new mode of ministry that partners with our corporate neighbors. Continue Reading
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A Living Hope: Preaching Eschatology
The Problem: A Lack of Eschatological Vision Nearly fifty years ago, in 1971, John Lennon issued his now famous sociological and theological dare to “imagine there’s no heaven.”1 During the Continue Reading
Ecosystem Theory & Boundary Leadership
It is the contention of this study that many churches in North America are existentially threatened due to their loss of a viable role within the changing social and economic Continue Reading
Sabbath Rest: A Theological Response to Self-Care for African American Clergy
Introduction On Saturday, March 30, 2019, the San Francisco Bay Area faith community and the community-at-large suffered a tremendous loss. At 7 pm that evening, the Very Reverend James V. Continue Reading
DigiVangelism: Sharing Faith on Digital Platforms
The age of the printing press is gone and the world is not likely to return to an era where formative information was primarily consumed via printed text. No. Today, people Continue Reading
Dear Freedom Church,
Dear Freedom Church, What are you doing in the way of Freedom today? I was raised in the AME Zion Church and know I benefited greatly from the support my Continue Reading
Campus Ministry Sustained
Today’s Class Will Meet on Zoom What the New Arms Race in Higher Education Means Believe me, before I entered the doctor of ministry program at Emory’s Candler School of Theology Continue Reading
Homegoings: A Matter of Life and Death
Introduction My brother, Eric was the oldest of the eight of us. He had skipped two grades in school and graduated early. He attended Morehouse College and was considered one Continue Reading
The Stained Glass Project: Revitalization Through Racial Reconciliation
Introduction Why Stained Glass? Other than a steeple adorned with a cross, there is no other clearer indicator of a “church” than stained glass windows. Ironically, stained glass serves as Continue Reading
Preaching for Vision Casting
Project Introduction In the summer of 2017, I began my ministry as the Senior Pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Wheaton. One of my initial tasks was to sit down Continue Reading
Mama Tried: An Introduction to Intentional Modeling
Believed to be somewhat autobiographical, Mama Tried offers Merle Haggard’s lament at the pain he caused his mother by his incarceration. Music historians note that Haggard, who did serve a Continue Reading
The Power of Mourning: Creating Spaces of Vulnerability for Black Clergywomen to Lament & Holler
For years, I have followed the career of Dr. Miranda Bailey on ABC’s medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy. I have always been amazed by her intelligence, her leadership, her work ethic, Continue Reading