What do you talk with AI about?  I talk with AI about how it could most effectively replace the global elite.  All of that money, all of tha...

How do you serve and support a healthy small faith community? That's one of the core questions of my doctoral research, and I'v...

It's been quite the week at my little congregation. This Monday morning, a multigenerational group of teens, young adults, and adult...

I'm almost done with my doctoral program, which I tend to jokingly describe as an Advanced Degree in Churchiness. There's a ke...

I blogged a bit ago on article last week in the Washington Post, one that described the increasing phenomenon of seminary attendees who ar...

A week ago, I sat in a classroom of fellow Doctor of Ministry students, all pastors, all learning more about leadership dynamics in congre...

Having worked through books about David, Saul, and Moses as models for organizational leadership, I find myself now chugging my way through...

The second in the sequence of books for my D.Min. program is Moses and the Journey to Leadership:  Timeless Lessons of Effective Managemen...

Having been asked to reflect on four books for my upcoming D.Min. coursework, the first I'll be reviewing here was written by two fo...

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As I plunge into the reading for my D. Min. program, the first of the books that I'm cranking through is by Debra E. Meyerson, an Associ...

In a recent post on her blog Tribal Church, Carol Howard Merritt raised concerns about the relative lack of diversity among church leadersh...

Yesterday, as I picked up an inexpensive vacuum for the church at the local K-Mart, I found myself waiting by my vehicle as a woman loaded h...

Over the last several years, I've been a part of the gradual transition of my worship service. When I started at my church, a-ways back...

Yesterday was a pretty solid Sunday. Worship was solid. There were more little squeakers in the nursery than I've seen in years. Our ...

I find myself in the peculiar position of being an Anglo pastor in a congregation that is almost entirely Asian, and majority Korean. I...

I am and have always been almost totally incapable of flirting. That's not to say I don't get along with women. I have always bee...