Design, Ministry & Theology
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I wanted to share with you about an event that I’m going to be at next month in Des Moines. The Presbytery of Des Moines is putting on an event called “Plugging In Without Shorting Out.” According to the brochure, the leadership for the three day conference will cover topics like:
Using technology to help congregations communicate [...]
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Many of you know that while I had planned on being ordained in December of ‘08 – things didn’t really pan out how I thought they would. It’s been over a year now since it all began – and while I haven’t wanted to rush into a decision concerning next steps, it became more and [...]
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This past Tuesday night, at 660th meeting of the Presbytery of San Francisco, the Presbytery narrowly approved Lisa Larges for ordination. Larges is a lesbian who has sought ordination in the Presbyterian Church (USA) for over 20 years. Presbytery Moderator Chuck Fry wrote the following on the Presbytery’s website:
The Presbytery in its 660th meeting voted [...]
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I know many of you have been following my ordination process, which was brought to a halt almost a year ago because I invited one of my best friends, Tony, to be the ordination preacher. There were some people who had an issue with Tony being gay and the problems began. It’s been an interesting year [...]
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I’ve been spending this week with a group of young adults discerning calls to the ministry. They are Undergraduate Fellows, Congregational Fellows and Ministry Fellows with The Fund for Theological Education. Both Sarah and I were Ministry Fellows back in 2004-2005, and we actually met at the Summer Conference. I’ve been able to stay connected [...]
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Troy Bronsink and I led a workshop called “Emerging Worship Environments” at the Alt7 Conference at Montreat this week. If you’re interested in downloading a PDF version of our presentation, you can do so here. Also, here are some additional resources that you may find beneficial if you’re interested in emerging culture and worship environments.
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Since graduating seminary, I’ve had the chance to preach ten times. Last summer when Sarah and I led The Macrina Community, I would first write out my sermons in manuscript format. Then I would make an outline based off of the manuscript, and preach from the outline. It was an extremely small, intimate and casual [...]
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I still remember the day during my first year of seminary when our Director of Student Relations and Senior Placement at Princeton told us that we really shouldn’t transfer while in the ordination process if we could avoid it. I don’t remember the reasons that she gave us, but I do remember that transferring (especially [...]
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Now that this post has “gone viral” – many of you may be arriving here for the first time. I know many of you are coming from Tony Jones’s BeliefNet postings, from Christianity Today’s Out of Ur blog and most recently from the CHURCHandWORLD Presbyweb site. If you’re interested in more of my writings about [...]
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Additional posts on PC(USA) Campus Ministry can be found here on the Presbyterian Bloggers United page.
My connection with Presbyterian Campus Ministries came during my second year of seminary at Princeton. I did my Field Education with Princeton Presbyterians, the Presbyterian campus ministry at Princeton University. The year I spent working with that ministry was a [...]
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Comment of the Day
March 6, 2009 · 14 comments
in Ministry, PC(USA)
Tony Jones has a Comment of the Day series at his blog, The New Christians. I’ve never really done something like that, and while I don’t know that I’ll continue with it, I just received what I believe to be worthy of “Comment of the Day/Week.” You can find the comment here, posted by Stephen; [...]
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