Entries Categorized as 'PC(USA)'

An Emerging Profession: Trying to write a PIF

November 12, 2007

My good friend Drew Ditzel is taking a course at Columbia Seminary with Steve Hayner on “Emerging Church Models.” For a paper, he is supposed to interact with some emerging church bloggers. He chose to write about ordained ministry, role of ministers in the church emerging, etc. I think it will be a good conversation. [...]

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Ready to start looking for jobs

October 22, 2007

Today is a big day for the Walker Cleavelands - we’re both done with the Ordination Exams and Sarah took the GREs today. It feels so good to have the Ordination Exams behind us, and a little bit intimidating as that means that we can begin to start to look for jobs. So - now [...]

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The Company of New Pastors

October 13, 2007

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Yes that’s right - this is me in front of the Presbyterian version of Mecca: The Presbyterian Center in Louisville, Kentucky. For those of you who aren’t Presbyterian, this is our headquarters. I was there for a weekend retreat of The Company of New Pastors (CNP) program for the denomination. Each [...]

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Presbymergent Polity 101: Worship, Sacraments and (Dis)Order

October 6, 2007

Many of you know that I will be presenting the following workshop at the Always Reforming: Emergence in the Presbyterian Church Conference in a week (it’s not too late to register).
Presbymergent Polity 101: Worship, Sacraments and (Dis)Order
Many view the Book of Order as a rigid, rule-focused guide for saying more about what one “can’t” do [...]

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Broad Street Ministry

August 29, 2007

This past Sunday, Sarah and I drove into the Philadelphia to worship at Broad Street Ministry. Broad Street Ministry is pastored by a variety of staff, but their founding pastor is Bill Golderer. The church is located on Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts, and directly across the street from The Kimmel Center for Performing Arts [...]

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PC(USA) Has $20,000 in Funding for Emergent Churches

August 27, 2007

Sherry Britton in the New Church Development office of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Louisville has asked some folks to share the following exciting news, especially for our presbymergent friends:
The director of Evangelism has just found $20,000 in his budget designated for emergent churches. He would like to receive proposals for the use of the [...]

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One Less Hoop to Jump Through

August 25, 2007

Today marked one less hoop to jump through, hopefully. The Church Polity Ordination Exam was today, and it was the last of 4 (Church Polity, Theology, Worship & Sacraments, and Exegesis) ordination exams PC(USA)ers have to take - and pass - in order to get ordained. I say hopefully because I thought this exam was [...]

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Back in Princeton

August 24, 2007

Sarah and I are now back in Princeton. We accumulated over 6,000 miles on our Yaris, listened to some really amazing books on CD, including Thomas Friedman’s “The World is Flat” and the entire “His Dark Materials” Trilogy by Philip Pullman. 9am Saturday morning we’ll be sitting in the basement of the Mackay Campus Center [...]

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On the Road: Update #2

August 18, 2007

I received an email from a friend today asking if I was okay or not - since I hadn’t updated my blog since the 13th. So, just in case anyone else was worried, I thought I’d post an update. We had a good couple days in Yellowstone (we put a lot of photos up here), [...]

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Roadtrip out West

August 10, 2007

We are in the car today driving up to Rochester, NY to stay the night with Sarah’s parents. They are being very gracious and are going to watch Sadie for 2 weeks(!). Then early Saturday morning we begin our roadtrip out west to get to Burley, Idaho for a Committee on Preparation for Ministry (CPM) [...]

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