Please Don’t Waste Your Transition Crisis!

Please Don’t Waste Your Transition Crisis!

 What would you say is the best gift a Transitional Pastor can give a congregation? Most traditional interim training programs land heavily on the idea that the primary task of a church in transition is dealing with grief. Thus, much of the work of a traditional...
Leadership as Learning to Let Go

Leadership as Learning to Let Go

  I have a love affair with books. I started dating books when I saw Dick and Jane run after Spot in first grade. I nurtured the relationship in third grade when The Scholastic Book Club let me order books from handouts my teacher, Mrs. Baker, would give us. I...
Four Lies of the Church Today

Four Lies of the Church Today

  I love the church and I have given my life serving within it and developing leaders for it.  I have seen lives changed, relationships renewed, and communities revitalized because of the work and witness of a congregation of believers. As much as I love the...