May 30, 2018 | DEAR ADDIE, Weekly Words
Dear Addie, As I see the “dare to be brave” theme for the Baptist Women in Ministry annual gathering, I am wondering if bravery sometimes looks like advocating for yourself. For those of us who do ministry in non-traditional settings, speaking honestly about your...
May 24, 2018 | Weekly Words
I don’t like pink and I’d rather be wearing jeans and watching baseball, even so, here I sit with my inner tomboy getting my nails done while writing a blog about a fashionable clergy robe. Baseball and blue jeans aside, I am a professional clergywoman and I like to...
May 23, 2018 | +Leadership, Weekly Words
Amanda Tyler is executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty in Washington, D.C. A member of the Texas and U.S. Supreme Court Bar, Amanda has experience working in Congress, in a private legal practice and serving as a law clerk for a...
May 16, 2018 | Weekly Words
“What do you need? And what can we send you?” As the Reverend George Rutler tells it, these were the questions that came from a British missionary society to Anglican ministers in Uganda. They were asked during the dictatorship of Idi Amin, as strife and violence were...
May 9, 2018 | Weekly Words
Throughout seminary, I focused much of my energy on student ministry. As I began to notice a gentle nudge toward the pastorate, I knew I had so much more to learn. A pastoral residency seemed like the perfect fit for me. A residency would allow me to spend two more...
Apr 25, 2018 | Weekly Words
As a new pastor, I’ve learned that Sunday comes more quickly than any other day of the week. As part of this realization, I have developed a reoccurring nightmare about the coming Sunday. In this nightmare, I step into the pulpit to preach, but I can’t for the life of...
