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
The Pastor Reader: How Daily Reading Shapes a Practicing Minister
Project and Problem As a lifelong reader who did not turn to the ministerial vocation until I was thirty years old, I was surprised to find early in my Continue Reading
SPIRITUAL MATURITY: A Preaching and Teaching Series on Ephesians
By Eric Sanford MATURITY There are many ways to talk about maturity, but often the process of becoming an adult comes to mind. In fact, research shows that children in Continue Reading
Pastoral Prophetic Preaching: A Spiritual and Cultural Hermeneutic for Prophetic Speech
Sunday, September 20, 2015, I preached as the pastoral candidate of the Historic Shiloh Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia. The sermon was entitled “It Doesn’t Make Sense,” taken from Job Continue Reading
Expository Listening
Introduction In the Shema Yisrael, hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one[1], God’s people are commanded to hear before they are commanded to speak. In the Continue Reading
The Timeless Story Across the Ages: New for Every Generation An Intergenerational Advent Worship Series
Why Intergenerational In this season of Covid-19 churches are scrambling more than ever, to be a vital and meaningful presence in the virtual world. How can we connect to one Continue Reading
Lord, Open Our Lips: Reclaiming the Daily Office in The Episcopal Church
Lord, Open Our Lips: Reclaiming the Daily Office in The Episcopal Church By: The Rev. Marshall A. Jolly A short fifteen-minute drive north from downtown Cincinnati, in the quiet suburban Continue Reading
Cultivating the Domestic Church
Introduction Even in places where the soil is excellent and the land hasn’t been inundated by flooding or drought, cultivation remains necessary for preparing, tending, and bringing crops to harvest. Continue Reading
Behind, In, In Front of
Behind, In, In Front of A Study in Communal Hermeneutics Introduction Upon taking the reins as the pastor of a small United Methodist congregation in Westfield, NY, I quickly Continue Reading
VA Whole Health Model and Chaplaincy
VA Whole Health Model and Chaplaincy Focusing on What Matters Most to the Veteran Introduction For the past four years I serve as a board-certified clinical chaplain with a specialty Continue Reading
Unity in Diversity: Reading Romans Through A Pastoral Theology Lens
Introduction What if we have been reading Romans wrong? For example, the Romans Road is an evangelistic tool used in the church. The Romans Road begins by claiming we are Continue Reading