The Avoider Pastor
When ‘Keeping the Peace’ Is Actually Keeping You Stuck There’s a pastoral skill that looks a lot like wisdom. It’s the ability to sense when a conversation is going to be hard, and quietly… not have it. To delay the difficult email. To let a festering issue sit just one more week. To stay so […]
Good News Bearers
As an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America I have come to lament the word evangelical in our name. Too often it’s reputation precedes it as it has grown some unhelpful arms and legs in recent years. However, I am reminded of a simple definition I once learned for the word evangelical from […]
The Pastor in Transition
Discernment, New Calls & What Comes Next Transition is one of the most spiritually and emotionally complex seasons a pastor can enter. Whether you’re considering a new call, stepping into retirement, feeling restless in your current place, or wondering if God might be redirecting you entirely — discernment requires more than a prayer. It requires […]
