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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Nurturing Pastoral Imagination in African American Clergy
An Education for Life Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was founded in 1868 by Hawaiian missionary and an agent of the Freedman’s Bureau Samuel Chapman Armstrong, three years after Continue Reading
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CONSTRUCTING A EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION OF TẾT
INTRODUCTION What does it mean in particular to be a Christian and to be Vietnamese-American, and what makes it unique? For many second-generation Vietnamese Americans, knowing how to express their Continue Reading
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What Should We Wear: The Clergy Clothing Quandry
What Should She Wear? She stands in her closet on a Sunday morning, thinking about what she should wear to lead worship that day. As she rifles through the hangers, Continue Reading
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The Destructive Forces of Colonization: Three Things You Need to Know About Haitian History & Why it Matters
When Haiti is mentioned, what immediately comes to mind? Despite being home to an ongoing humanitarian crisis, Haiti remains largely “out of sight, out of mind” in North America. When Haitian news Continue Reading
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Sabbath as Practice: What Defines How You Spend Your Time?
For most of us, it’s work. Our work schedules dictate when we wake and when we sleep. They define when we make plans for various appointments. When conflicts come up Continue Reading
Community Chaplaincy: Chaplaincy in the Margins
The Lightbulb Moment I was in the middle of a training session for new Executive Directors in the state of Oklahoma. We were all fresh on the job, within a Continue Reading
From Charity to Solidarity: Emancipatory Hope for Women Against the Tide of Systemic Injustice
During the late spring/early summer of 2015 I found myself traveling across the state of Texas speaking to members of the five regions of the Eighth Episcopal District of the Continue Reading
Healing the Broken Relationship: The Black Church and The Black Lives Matter Generation
Can you imagine the death of the Black Church? An institution that derives from the suffering, pain, and oppression of black individuals, the foundational spiritual organization for the empowerment of Continue Reading
Don’t Drop the Baton
Dropping the Baton… At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio the U.S. Women’s 4×100 relay team was disqualified during the finals qualifying heat when Allyson Felix dropped the baton after Continue Reading
Awaken: Rediscovering God’s Call to Justice
Introduction On June 2, 2019, I began serving as Pastor of the Second Missionary Baptist Church (SMBC) in Jacksonville, Florida. The Church, SMBC, is in a neighborhood known as Continue Reading
Protected: Model for Implanting Intergenerational Ministry in Single Traditional Churches
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Catch the Spirit
Introduction to Ministry Context National Wesleyan Church (NWC)is a predominantly Afro Caribbean/African congregation located in the City of Hyattsville, MD, approximately one mile outside the Nation’s Capital, Washington DC. The Continue Reading
Structured for Mission: District Connectionalism Simplified
Bishop Kenneth Carder explains that United Methodist’s “connectionalism . . . is an expression of our understanding of the church as the body of Christ, with each part of the Continue Reading