When church leaders grieve, there is sometimes a spiritual reality that makes the grief of a pastor or priest slightly distinct from the grief…
Category: Accents of the Church
Fight, Flight, Freeze: Holy Week Unraveled
We work so hard to keep Holy Week well-orchestrated: bulletins pristine, lilies in place, songs rehearsed. It’s an important celebration in the life of…
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[Her] Story: Wesleyan Holiness Women Clergy Celebrate Calling
From March 10-12 in Grapevine, Texas, Wesleyan Holiness Women Clergy hosted [Her] Story, an online and in-person gathering for women in ministry. The organization…
Why We Must Develop Habits of Deeper Discernment
The demands of our world make it abundantly clear that we urgently need Christians who cultivate habits of discernment. Discernment can be challenging to…
Overcoming Antagonism: What You Can Learn from Nehemiah
At our church, we’re spending time in the book of Nehemiah and learning how it is that amazing things happen. So far, we’ve explored…
Quietly Anchored by Advent
Some things you only discover over the long course of years. This frustrates an economy of optimization, hyper-fixated on immediate improvement and benefit. Wisdom…
Waiting and Working for Peace
My wife and I currently live in Switzerland, very close to the French border, so we regularly travel between the two countries. Despite French…
Glory, Suffering, and Sacred Space
Many traditions and cultures in and through which the Church has found its liveliness - growing tree-like in different climates and biomes - celebrate…
Ministry Grief, Loss, Compassion Fatigue: A Conversation
We're pleased to share this recorded conversation created as a resource from The Wesleyan Church Department of Education and Clergy Development. Although this was…
A Pastoral Posture toward Social Media
My undergraduate degree is in chemistry. My desire was to be a doctor, but the Lord had other plans. I’ve sometimes wondered, “Lord, if…