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Testing Students, Evaluating Myself

Though I’ve been teaching and supervising Doctor of Ministry students for more than a decade; and have, as a part of that work, read and evaluated an array of personal exploratory essays, theological reflection papers, and summaries of ministry projects, last week, I...

The Possibility of Change

We all know the overworked cliché which defines insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”  As worn and familiar as it is, we keep proving its essential wisdom.It happens in the groups of which we’re a part. With...

Freedom and the Weather of the Heart

Yesterday’s bright blue sky, streaked with long and thin white clouds, the shimmering sun, and the slight cooling breeze were such welcome gifts after days of ponderous grey air and pouring rain.  With the clinging fog and veiling clouds evaporated from the...

Broken Things and All Shall Be Well

In my dream, I was scheduled to play golf with a friend.  Never mind that I haven’t played golf in over a decade, gave my clubs away a few years ago, and wore-out my golf shoes by using them for yard work (they aerated the lawn while I walked!). I scrambled...

The Challenge and Gift of Time

Many of us have a troubled relationship with time.Carl Honore wrote an interesting book, In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed, the idea for which came to him as he rushed through an airport and saw a book entitled The...