Prepare Three Envelopes: A Parable about Pastoral Ministry
The Lost Soul of the Procedural Church
Ten Highly Effective Strategies for Crushing your Pastor’s Morale
Ruminations on Burnout: Should Pastors Really be Working?
Is Clergy Burnout a Symptom of a Crisis of Identity and Vocation?
Pastor’s Aren’t Prophets: Some Unsolicited Advice for Newly-Minted Ministers
A Hundred Lesser Duties: The Marginalization of Preaching
Where I Ruminate on My Ordination on this its Anniversary
Where I Ruminate on the Several Meanings of the Lord’s Supper
On Christian Writing and Writers
The Tools of a Learned Ministry
The Ministry and its Discontents: Pastors in Peril
Eastertide Ruminations on Committal Practices around Cremation
Karl Barth on “What is Preaching?”
Ten Theses about Interim Ministry
Do ministers work for the church?
‘Prophetic’ Pastors Who Don’t Love the Church
Confused: Interpreting Your Congregation’s Numbers
Christian Teachings about Life After Death
Ministry is not a Commodity, and Ministers are not Appliances: An Installation Sermon
Clergy evaluation committees and why they are a bad idea
The Secret Sauce of Ministry: A Recipe in Two Parts
Some Lenten Reflections on Forgiveness
“Taking the Long View” Reflections of a Retired Pastor
“From Here to There and Back Again: The Journey from Text to Sermon”
When I Survey . . . 