In recent years, I’ve adopted a mantra that most people may find strange and even alarming. Due to the potential reaction, I don’t tend to share it with others, because it’s easy to misconstrue without a thorough amount of explanation. Even then, I imagine that many will continue to worry about my psyche and, ifContinue reading “First Week of Advent: Horizon”
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Your Pastor Is Not a Scapegoat
One of my favorite sayings in ministry is, “this is not about that.” That is, whatever the presenting issue is (a complaint about a tablecloth shortage for an upcoming dinner, for instance), is really about something else that won’t be as apparent (worries over finances that have resulted in no tablecloths). People decide it isContinue reading “Your Pastor Is Not a Scapegoat”
This Horse Is Very Much Dead, But Let’s Keep Beating It Anyway
It happened again. It didn’t surprise me, honestly. I was scrolling social media the other day and came across someone insisting that residential seminary education forms people for ministry much more effectively than hybrid or online programs. On the one hand, I understand this. These opinions always seem to come from clergy who had deeplyContinue reading “This Horse Is Very Much Dead, But Let’s Keep Beating It Anyway”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 