by rg7878 | Oct 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
A couple of months ago, I mused here about Jesus’ call that we love others. A Christianity that cannot walk in love with one another and with the world is not a Christianity that reflects the one we claim to follow, and so we must lean into it. And while the phrase...
by rg7878 | Oct 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
I don’t often respond to current events. I work so slowly that by the time I have a response, the event is no longer current and has been forgotten. Nevertheless, my concern in this episode is one that continues to be raised, and so the time feels right to address it...
by rg7878 | Sep 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
I’d like to welcome everyone to the inaugural “Rainy Day Conversation around Greatheart’s Table.” These are longer conversations in which I invite some smart, insightful, and experienced people to talk and to reflect realistically on some aspect of pastoral ministry,...
by rg7878 | Sep 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hello, everyone. Welcome once again to Greatheart’s Table, the podcast for pastors and those who care for them. This one has a provocative title, to say the least, one which is disconcerting no matter how you read it. I am using this week’s space to explain and to...
by rg7878 | Sep 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
With this episode we doing something different. We are going to hear from someone else around the table. For quite a while I’ve appreciated the writing of Adam Tisdale as he has urged me with his newsletter he calls “Double the Joy” to be more grateful for the small...
by rg7878 | Sep 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Thanks for joining us here at Greatheart’s Table, the podcast for pastors and those who need therapists. Well, that’s not exactly the tag line we normally use, but we’ve been touching on a common thread over the past several episodes that could make it plausible. I’ve...
by rg7878 | Aug 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
If you are new to Greatheart’s Table, I suggest you dial back to listen to episode #67 titled “Mr. Greatheart and This Metaphorical Table.” That will explain what we are trying to do here, and where the title comes from. I post a new episode three Mondays of each...
by rg7878 | Aug 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Although I write Greatheart’s Table with pastors in mind, the content is often widely applicable. Perhaps I should promote this as being “for pastors and those who have pastors.” In the case of this episode, a reset of one first released on July 12, 2021, the thought...
by rg7878 | Aug 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
One of our goals here around Greatheart’s Table, insidious to some, simply subversive to others, is to broaden the way pastors think. It’s good for our thoughts to be seeded now and then with outside ways of looking at the world. That can be frightening at times, of...
by rg7878 | Jul 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
With this episode I begin a series of four which in one way or another considers the relationship between pastoral ministry and clinical counseling. In so doing I wade into water some might call hot. I know that what I will suggest will not be shared by others. Still,...
