Starting a New Call: A Top 10 List of Dos and Don’ts
Pace yourself. You are going to be tempted to go, go, go. Don’t give in to the temptation. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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Parlor and Kitchen Stories
This spring, I took a job in a new church context. There is something so unique and exhausting about the first couple of months of a new job, trying to […]
Leadership Metaphors: Garden and Machine
I was only about a month into my first call as solo pastor of a small Presbyterian congregation when a new class of elders rolled onto the Session, which is […]
Better Together
When I began seminary, my husband was finishing, so the question du jour was, “Would you ever work together?” To which I responded with a resounding, “NO!” We’re too competitive, too insecure, […]
