Youth
Year like fresh piece of paper
It is here, a new year, with new opportunities and fresh possibilities. It is similar to a fresh sheet of drawing paper, as yet unmarked. How will we start it? What will be our style, color scheme, medium? What if we ruin it? Will fear of making a mistake prevent us from living fully into [...]
Ministry Development
Ministry much more than the “stuff we do in church”
I’ve just finished reading an edited version of an article called “Lay Ministry is at a Dead End.” The title alone got my attention! The article was written in 2004 by Loren Mead, the founder of the Alban Institute, an amazing organization back in the “other” Washington.
Mead’s point is that lay ministry has no chance [...]
Congregational Development
Resolutions of different sort have impact on whole diocese
Have you made any New Year’s resolutions yet? Many of us are wrestling with those traditional resolves to eat less and exercise more; to clean out those overstuffed closets and corners of the basement; to read more good books.
But let me suggest a few resolutions of a different sort. These have to do with those [...]
Bishop's Notes
Be present to the Holy in our midst
Today is December 7. This is a Christmas column. Yet as I write I am looking toward and thinking past Christmas, to the New Year and to the possibilities it holds because of Christmas. Christ the Savior is born. Let us ponder what that means for daily life.
My thoughts return to a recent experience at [...]
