Note: Monday Morning Quarterback is a weekly post reviewing Sunday, the busiest, most stressful, most gratifying day in the week of a pastor/parent/spouse/citizen Song of the day: 6:00. Out of bed to… more →
YoRocko!wrote 4 months ago: Note: Monday Morning Quarterback is a weekly post reviewing Sunday, the busiest, most stressful, mos … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Last week, Bruce Reyes-Chow, Moderator of my denomination’s 218th General Assembly, announced … more →
wrote 5 months ago: IMG_0671 (Photo credit: ptcaweb) Recently I have been reading the book Open Source Church: Making R … more →
wrote 9 months ago: PLGRM, Volume 1-Issue 1, Summer 2012, PLGRM Media LLC. Cover art “Reversal” by Ryan Kemp … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Finally, a useful proposal for confirmation in a progressive mainline church. After four years of ha … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I was privileged recently to participate in a series of posts on Ecclesio called Theology as Art alo … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The smartest kid in school, Carol Howard Merritt, asks us some very simple questions in her latest p … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I think there are two reasons new churches fail.* Just Do It For folks in the circles I typically ru … more →
wrote 1 year ago: One of the perils in communication is that you will neither communicate everything you intended, nor … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I wanted to follow up on my post from yesterday about young(ish) mainline pastor types planting chur … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I am about to write something that I’m sure is almost completely at odds with what I hear a lo … more →
wrote 1 year ago: In August, I had the privilege of leading a couple of workshops for the Presbytery of Sheppards and … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The second chapter of Open Source Church is WIKI-WONDERFUL. Just a brilliant chapter on the way t … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Image via Wikipedia At First Presbyterian of Osawatomie we have begun a small group program. I am a … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Image via Wikipedia I have a confession. When I am feeling my best….Norman Greenbaum’s … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I have heard it more than once! ”Why don’t people dress up to come to church anymore? … more →
wrote 1 year ago: “Putting a Leash on Leviathan(?)”Job 28:1-28; 38:1-21; 41:1-11 © 6/26/11 by Tom Cheatham at First Pr … more →
wrote 2 years ago: In “Church as Wikipedia” (the April 11, 2011 Alban Weekly adapted from the recently publ … more →
wrote 2 years ago: As I sit around the dining room table with my family who is visiting their ailing father, I’m … more →