Jan Edmiston has been a favorite online voice of mine for many years. She blogs almost daily about issues facing people in ministry, churches, and denominations as Christendom continues to crumble. Recently, she shared a question from a colleague: What are you paid to do that you love doing? The idea behind the question isContinue reading “What I Love Doing”
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Johnnie Walker Spirituality
As I made my way through every Oscar nominee for Best Picture the past couple of months, the movie American Fiction stood out as one of my favorites. It stars the incomparable Jeffrey Wright as a struggling author who becomes so frustrated with what kind of Black art sells that he fires off a satiricalContinue reading “Johnnie Walker Spirituality”
How to Stifle a Culture of Call
Here’s an obvious thing: those who discern a call to ministry, do so in a variety of ways. The shape that a calling may take is unique to the gifts, life experience, and interests of the particular person discerning it. For as long as most church structures have existed, the primary form that such aContinue reading “How to Stifle a Culture of Call”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 