Jul 28, 2010 | Being a Minister, Being the Church
I just finished reading Susan Sparks’ Laugh Your Way to Grace. The premise of the book is the need for and the function of humor in spirituality. Sparks presents the notion that all human gatherings can be classified into two groups: living room gatherings or den...
Jul 26, 2010 | Motherhood and Ministry
An annual trip to the doctor this week meant answering the usual questions to update the medical records. Is this still your health insurance? Are you still at this address? Has your email address changed? And you’re still a homemaker? I paused and bristled a bit with...
Jul 13, 2010 | Community, Preaching
Sunday, June 27, was a special day for a small rural congregation in south central Virginia. Colby was being dedicated, and a potential intentional interim was preaching a “trial” sermon. The congregation needed an intentional interim desperately, and this sermon was...
Jun 15, 2010 | Encouraging Words
When I was four years old, my family moved from Atlanta, Georgia, after my dad finished Georgia Tech, to Columbia, South Carolina, where he began his first engineering job. My parents had been raised in Baptist churches and when they arrived in Columbia, they begin...
Jun 9, 2010 | +Pam Durso, The BWIM Book Club
Seems like I have made lots of friends in the last year. Working for Baptist Women in Ministry, well, it has opened doors to wonderful new friendships, including a friendship with Susan Sparks. Susan is the pastor of Madison Avenue Baptist Church in New York. It makes...
