Leadership, Communication, Ministry Health, Spiritual Health & YM Systems and Structures
The email caught me by surprise. It wasn’t one I was used to reading, and it was from a parent thanking me for her daughter’s small group leader. The...
It was a feeling of excitement followed by anxiety. My wife and I had just bought our first house, and as we slept in it for the first time, I…
I remember cringing when I saw the cover of the magazine. On the front dawned a man wearing shorts, a graphic t-shirt, a backward baseball cap, and...
I could sense the frustration coming from her voice. “No one is showing up to the program,” I asked her to explain, and she told me that it had been…
When you are a leader, there is a burden to carry, but to hold on to that alone is not smart. When you put it on yourself, you limit yourself…
While my youth were packing shoeboxes for the homeless, I snapped a well-angled photo. When I heard our Keynote say something brilliant, I tweeted...
Playing a board game had never been more painful. I wasn’t losing or being humiliated, the pain was physical, picking up the dice and rolling them...
This summer kicked my ass. Walking into it, my wife and I had plans for the boys, and those fell through. I had trips organized with little margin,...
Fifteen years ago, I walked into my first ministry job, having no clue what I was doing. I was a year out of college, with no formal training, just...
Her response wasn’t anything new, but it still hurt. The mother of an eighth-grader told me, “Thanks, but our son goes to Catholic school, so he...
It was hard to leave the youth ministry at my last parish. Over the years I had gotten to know the teens and their families. I had seen a lot…
Recently I attended the Voice + Vision Conference hosted by the National Dialogue and Franciscan University. It was a conference for those who wanted...
