by Michael | Apr 30, 2016 | Faith-Related, Quotes, Reading
I’m posting quotes as we go through the fuzzy zone of being new parents again in these next days. This quote comes from Jaco Hamman (Becoming a Pastor, 71): Ministry, like any other truly human activity, emerges from your inwardness, for better or worse. As you...
by Michael | Apr 10, 2016 | Clinical Pastoral Education, Faith-Related, Quotes, Reading, Writing
A midwife teacher helps half-baked ideas and perceptions develop in dialogue to fuller maturity. What is important is not to begin with perfected thought, but to encourage creative thinking that is pushing the edges and discovering where novelty becomes possible. A...
by Michael | Oct 21, 2015 | Faith-Related, Quotes, Relationships
On rare occasions, we may need to breathe someone into life who is incapacitated in a way that threatens his or her well-being. But most people can and must come to life in their own way and time, and if we try to help them by hastening the process, we end up doing...
by Michael | Sep 2, 2015 | Faith-Related
Me and my friend David Swanson talked together as part of an interview with our denomination’s communications department. I had originally written a piece and submitted it, and that piece turned into an occasion to talk with a friend and brother about people we...
by Michael | May 4, 2014 | Faith-Related
I’ve been thinking about the creation of saints, the way saints are made, and it’s been a head swirl of a time. I’ve been both captivated and sullen, giving my ears to the interviews between Charlie Rose and leaders in the Roman church, for...
