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...
by rg7878 | Jul 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
The content of this episode is excerpted from my retreat addressing what I call “off-script kids.” I explained this in a post a few weeks ago. The retreat is linked in the show notes. Parents of off-script kids carry many different emotions. But what they should not...
by rg7878 | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Ordinarily you only hear me on these episodes. But periodically I like to drop into the mix longer conversations with men and women who have insight into pastoral well-being or practice. Rainy Day People are, as suggested by Gordon Lightfoot’s song of that name, those...
