by rg7878 | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
This episode invites us to consider the leadership models we as pastors, but as those filling any role, really, adopt and promote. Authoritarian leadership styles seem to be sweeping the world by storm, and these are trends which pastors particularly must stand...
by rg7878 | Aug 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is the third of three episodes drawn from the content of the retreat I offer for parents of off-script kids, the adult children of Christian parents who have made life choices troubling to their parents. In the retreat I help parents unlearn the toxic teaching...
by rg7878 | Jul 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Those who know me know how skeptical I am about the use of statistics by pastors, and how much I mistrust a certain oft-quoted polling organization based in California. But my concern is not statistics per se, but the fact that if we are not careful the pulpit,...
by rg7878 | Jul 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
As many know, on the first, second, and third Mondays of each month I reproduce here an audio version of my Substack newsletter, for those who prefer their content in audio form. But on the third and fifth Mondays I release audio only conversations with others who...
by rg7878 | Jul 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
I love good children’s books. This is so well known, that a 9 year old member of our church recently took great joy in giving me Volume 1 of a collection of Mo Willems’ Elephant and Piggie books. She was beaming, and so was I. Books like these ought to be read for the...
