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
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
Plenty Good Room: Reclaiming Hospitality in the Black Church
Why Hospitality in the Black Church? In contemporary American culture, we often hear how many congregations are in drastic decline and in some cases struggling to survive. This is especially Continue Reading
Intimacy with Christ through Contemplative Prayer
Seeking Intimacy with Christ Our church recently had a college Ministry Celebration Sunday to hear various testimonies from local college students about how the local Wesley Foundation http://www.ungwesley.org/ has deepened Continue Reading
Encountering Violent Texts in Scripture: A Study in Communal Hermenutics
Introduction One Sunday I was in worship at Christ United Methodist Church in Franklin, TN watching our children perform the musical, “Moses and the Freedom Fanatics”. I wasn’t in the 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
COLLABORATIVE PREACHING
OCCASIONAL CO-PREACHING WITH CHURCH MEMBERS TO ALIGN THE MEDIUM WITH THE MESSAGE AND BUILD DISCIPLES What do the above sermons say before uttering a word? While a sermon proclaims the gospel, its Continue Reading
Do, Love and Walk: A Study in Faith & Leadership
After 20+ years in corporate management and consulting, working in a wide variety of financial institutions throughout the US, it became clear that professionals were often expected to “check their Continue Reading
Rendering Visible: Answering the Call to Preach Racial Justice in White Congregations
In August of 2014 an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. The Brown shooting happened on the heels Continue Reading