Ten new ministries blessed with church-wide partnership and funding

During the October meeting of the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council, the Joint Standing Committee on Local Ministry and Mission prayerfully granted the funds needed to start two new churches, four […]

Video: Prayer of Encouragement

Celebrating another new ministry!

We are inspired by the new ministry called Table 229 – supported by the Episcopal Church in Minnesota. Jennifer McNally originally started this as a “mission enterprise zone” for those […]

Southside Abbey

My conversation with the "Standing Commission on the Structure of the Church"

My conversation with the "Standing Commission on the Structure of the Church" reminded me of this beautiful quote from Tim Brown's "Change by Design"   It’s no accident that designers […]

to gain the kingdom of heaven is like …

"To gain the kingdom of heaven is to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen, and to know the unknowable."

Gaze Heuristics for ministry priorities!

Starting the new year out right asks us to reconsider how we prioritize! In the worlds of sociology and psychology, heuristics are simple, efficient rules proposed to explain how people […]

Madmen are the greatest reasoners we know…

It was G. K. Chesterton who kept alive the spirit of Kierkegaard and naive Christianity in modern thought, as when he showed with such style that the characteristics the modern mind prides […]

Except you become as a little child … but in a new light!

“The adult is not the highest stage of development. The end of the cycle is that of the independent, clear-minded, all-seeing Child. That is the level known as wisdom. When […]

Sermon sketches for the ELCA Mission Developer Training, 2014A

Text: John 21:1-19 Who am I? I have been called the Episcopal Church’s expert on new ministries. “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes which can […]