QUESTION TWO: Will pastors become talking heads? Here’s how four U40 ministers phrased it: Will pastors be able to establish a balance between digital and analog? Will we define “ministry” as posting information on social media or will I make the effort to make personal touches and care for people one-on-one? Will pastors be Word and […]
With the national conversation shifting to the question of ending the quarantine, pastors find their burden not lifted, but shifted as well. And deepened. As they shepherd their people in quarantine, they are asking how they will Psalm 23-shepherd through the transition back to normal. They are asking what the new normal will look like […]
As a pastoral coach, I spend countless hours in conversation with our ministry’s target group, young ministers. It’s who we are; it’s what we do. And it’s a joy. These conversations are focused on helping our members in their ministry lives. Through regularly scheduled and special phone calls, I join their journeys and help them […]
I remember the anxiety that filled our nation. People were dying. We knew the name of the infection that was killing them. But we didn’t really know how the disease was spreading. And killing. And because we didn’t know with certitude, the rumor mill raced in to fill the void. The black hole of curiosity and […]
INTRODUCTION One year ago this month, Journey Pastoral Coaching published an article entitled, “The World Will End in 23 Years (The Church World).” In that piece, I cited statistics on the graying of the American pulpit. How gray are we going? This gray: “By the time your son or daughter, born today, graduates from college, the average […]
As a part of JPC’s mission, each month we ask our members to answer what we call an “Insight Question.” The purposes of the JPC monthly IQ are simple: 1. To coach the coach: Journey members’ responses are vital to me as I share their individual journeys and seek to understand the issues they face; 2. To coach […]
THE JOURNEY INSIGHT QUESTION As a part of JPC’s mission, we ask our members each month to answer what we call an “Insight Question.” From time to time we open our “IQs” to non-member U40s. However, the IQ that serves as the basis for this article was restricted only to Journey members. The purposes of […]
An Open Letter to Journey Pastoral Coaching Members I’ll say it yet again: The number one killer of ministers is loneliness. And loneliness is skyrocketing among young adults. It’s leading to record numbers in depression, self-harm, the inability to connect, and even suicide. Suicide rates for young males (ages 15 – 24) quadrupled between 1946 […]
The Problem: Feeble Arms and Weak Knees Editor’s Note: As Journey Pastoral Coaching begins 2020, we do so with an article written by a JPC member. In it, the author has one eye on the past and one eye on the future: the past – the troubling announcements in 2019 by celebrity leaders in the […]
As 2019 comes to a close, we offer our list of favorite reads for the year. As we have always done, this is not a list of books published in 2019, but books readin 2019, whatever the publishing year. If a book is on this list, I recommend you give it a read in 2020. In 2019 we […]
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