Protected: Leading God’s Flock from Rough to Still Water: The Role of the Pastor in Eatonton First United Methodist Church’s Tensions Over Worship
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Category: Church Leadership and Community Witness
Gathering at the Table
From Gathered Community to Private Communion Room Noted twenty-first century Baptist historian and scholar, Curtis Freeman argues, “The benefits of salvation are mediated not by pious feelings or individual faith Continue Reading
Recognizing Difference
How a church chooses to adapt to change is a significant indicator of its future. Every church experiences change throughout the life of its ministry. The significance for a 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
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
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
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
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
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