For SEVEN years, when my accountability group asked if I engaged in daily devotion, I reported “No.” It was the patience and prodding of my fellow clergy brothers and sisters that helped me actually do it.
He was only in it for the money, $16 a month. But a teenage stint as church janitor taught Bishop Kenneth L. Carder a lifetime of lessons about leadership.
Trappist monks in Missouri support themselves by baking and selling fruitcakes. They balance the need to sustain the business without having the enterprise overtake their spiritual mission.
An Episcopal priest starts pastoral ministry with a reminder that the only ‘real’ world is the kingdom of God, says Catherine A. Caimano.
The story of the exorcist in the Gospel of Mark reminds us to resist the temptation to value membership more than service, says Brian K. Blount.
Competition isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It can push people to do their best in service to God, says the Rev. Louis Weeks.
Sometimes we may be obligated to bring prayer out of the closet.
What makes this crazy work worth doing? A sense of call, says the Rev. Martin B. Copenhaver.
Christians can learn from Jews the "sacrament of study."
Noted scholar Richard Hays celebrates his son’s ordination with lessons for ministry from two strange texts at the beginning and the end of the Bible.