A Mending Shift

a bird sings, not because if has an answer to give, but because it has a song to sing … this is my song

Lower-Deck People

| April 8, 2009

ShareI want to thank Kathy for a conversation a group of us had over cocktails in Albuquerque. This is what came to my mind as we were discussing “upper-deck people” and “lower-deck people” in relation to the church. In some churches (please re-read the word some), there seems to be two sets of people: the [...]

The Wounded Image of God

| April 2, 2009

SharePlease allow me to humbly share my witness to a deep wound that showed up at the Emerging Church Post-Conference Conversation in Albuquerque. This wound was expressed quietly all weekend long but finally came festering to the surface during the last morning of our time together. It is a wound shared by many of those [...]

Are You in the Ministry?

| November 5, 2008

Share This is a question I still get asked when I run into people who knew me when I was a paid, professional pastor. The conversation usually goes like this: “Jeromy, how are you doing?” “I’m doing good, and yourself?” “Oh, we’re fine. What have you been up to? Are you still in the ministry?” [...]

When the Supplement Becomes the Meal

| May 20, 2008

Share As we begin to dream of what a church built around smaller groups that focus on discipleship looks like, the topic of children’s ministry inevitably comes to the surface. What do the kids do in such a church and how do they get their consistent spiritual food? Within this context, what does “Children’s Ministry” [...]