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
Scripture, Narrative, and Liturgical Reflection: A Three-Legged Stool for Liturgical Preaching
the Rev’d Jay Weldon, Parish of the Good Shepherd, Waban, Massachusetts Introduction I am an Episcopal priest and I preach almost every Sunday. I receive all of the comments that Continue Reading
Health Incarnate: Growing a Healthier Community through Youth Ministry in Greene County, Georgia
Posted on 4/3/18 by Avis E. Williams The Beginning… The initial idea for a community project came as I served as Pastor of Community Transformation for Lake Continue Reading
Toward Communal Healing: Initiating a Collective Vision to Combat Congregational Crises
The Church In Crisis I was excited! After having endured the gauntlet of a process that only a Baptist church pulpit committee can concoct, I emerged from approximately 60 other Continue Reading
Faith and Food Justice
Why the Peace Garden Project? I was raised in the south in a pretty fundamentalist Baptist Church, and I have a Muslim sister. Though my beliefs are no longer Continue Reading
The Role of the Church in Racial Reconciliation Dialogue: Instructions from Matthew 15:21-28
On October 5, 2017, Jeffrey Rosen, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, presented a lecture entitled, “A Question of Citizenship: The Fourteenth Amendment Yesterday and Today,” Continue Reading
Mastering Calling Comprehension: Answer God’s Call with Clarity & Confidence
If you could ask God one question, what would it be? “A USA Today poll found that if people could ask God just one question, most would want to know: Continue Reading
Lord, Have Mercy: The Order of Confession and Forgiveness, Mystagogical Preaching, and the “Southern Way of Life”
Like most Evangelical Lutheran Churches in America, Beth-Eden Lutheran Church begins every worship service with The Order of Confession and Forgiveness:[1] As worship begins, water is poured into a baptismal Continue Reading
Hope for Psychology-integrated Preaching: The Hope-based Dynamic Spiritual Care Assessment Model
Arguably, preaching is the most popular medium for pastoral care in churches.[1] Accompanying this central role of care is a deep commitment to its effectiveness, particularly in relating the hope Continue Reading