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LeadershipPresbymergent has entered into a new phase with the creation of the presbymergent Coordinating Group. About two months ago, we wrote about how we were looking to create a Coordinating Group for presbymergent. After a few weeks of allowing people to self-nominate themselves, and checking in with those who have been active with presbymergent since [...]
Several months ago, we tossed out a post asking our presbymergent community to come up with some questions for the candidates for Moderator of the General Assembly. Here are your questions, in poll-style — vote for your favorites, and we’ll present the top five to the candidates.
Hint: You can stuff the ballot box [...]
As many of you know, presbymergent began as the brainchild of just two individuals. A year later, we are a full-fledged community of several hundred ministers, lay-persons, writers, evangelists, youth directors, web-developers, theologians, seminarians, artist-musicians, and more. Until now, “presbymergent leadership” has consisted primarily of the seven website editors, and whomever happened [...]
Mark Brantley-Gearhart recently posted this comment in the discussion about Clerks of Session. It’s a great start for beginning a conversation about Session committees:
“Last night our Session did something different. Instead of the annual assignment of committee chairpersons, we talked about options to committees. With the exception of the Nominating Committee (which is mandated [...]
Once again, I’ll dip into the presbymergent brain trust with a question about the changing dynamics within my own congregation.
I love my “wee kirk,” which when I arrived back in 2003 was a group of about 17 stalwarts, the last folks standing in a suburban congregation that began it’s archetypal mainline deathspiral back in the [...]
Our church, Westminster Presbyterian in Lakewood, NY, hosted Phyllis Tickle this past weekend. And we had another surprise and a wonderful guest, Karen Sloan joining us for the weekend. What energy!!! What inspiration!!!
I have decided to write this post in response to last weekend to share some reflections as well as to encourage [...]
I share this in hopes of gaining more insight from this collective wisdom. This morning Carol Howard Merritt, alumni from APTS, discussed the financial disparity that exists out there in ChurchWorldLand. She says, “I wish that each pastor had a set amount, based on cost of living, housing, experience, and education. A set salary, [...]
I have been working on a project for a few months now. I am finally putting it together. I apologize for the cross pollination from my site. I wanted to get some feed back from y’all before I finalize anything. I am shooting for a C or maybe a B-. [...]
I was on my knees in the sanctuary of the church where I am currently serving as Associate Pastor (the only pastor as of now, since the senior pastor departed), and I probably should have been praying. Instead, I was muttering a few choice words at the iron that was smoking in my hands. [...]
Yes . . . I KNOW, one cannot define the attributes of things “postmodern,” one can only describe them. Still, if churches and communities are going to explore new ways of raising and nurturing leadership, shouldn’t there be some idea of what makes a good pastor or spiritual leader in the postmodern context?
Here is [...]
