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You’re in the (Lord’s) Army Now, part II: Rev. Amy Zucker Morgenstern on...
This is part II of a series on making the adjustment from congregant to seminarian (and ultimately, to minister). For Rev. Patrick McLaughlin’s commentary on changes to relationships within the home...
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things we lost in the fire
The formation process, year 1. It’s educational. It’s beautiful. It’s really damned hard. There is something different, challenging, not what I expected every single day. Often that something is...
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raisins are of the devil, and other things I didn’t learn at #CGUUS
Last weekend I attended a conference for Unitarian Universalist seminarians, at which our theologian in residence was the Rev. Thandeka. Thandeka is, quite honestly, something of a legend within my...
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when the time comes to let it go
I’ve been thinking a lot about this post. I wrote it last December, contemplating a time (an as yet undefined, hopefully very “future” time) when my congregation’s minister will leave our church....
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Dear prospective UU seminarians (helpful advice. freshly squeezed.)
So. Something’s calling your name. And you wonder if that something might be Spirit, and if the way to appease it might be seminary. If this describes you, your potential future classmates* have put...
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Guidelines and Goodfellas – On Living in Fellowship
This is guest post #3 of 3 in what it means to make the transition from “congregant” to “seminarian” and, ultimately, to “minister.” Click here to read Rev. Patrick McLaughlin on navigating changed...
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I refuse to do it all
The other day I was talking with a dear friend about marriage and family life. “My only problem with my marriage,” Anna exclaimed, “is my children!” I laughed in immediate recognition—how well I know...
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let sleeping dragons lie
h “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.” One of my seminary classmates posted this Calvin & Hobbes quote yesterday morning. And it’s true– sometimes even...
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summer vacation (a dialogue about questionable life choices)
I’ve been kinda quiet here lately. In real life, too, unless you’re one of My People. Then I’ve been rather chattery. Nerves, you see. We here at Raising Faith are dealing with Many Big Events In the...
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on the road (OR, what I’m NOT learning in CPE this summer)
I’ve been having some trouble with my commute. Kansas City, with no functional, centralized public transit system, is a city of freeways. It has byways and beltways, bridges and merges, and, as I...
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Goofus and Gallant: interview how-tos for seminarians
Dear Readers: Raising Faith is delighted to bring you guest posts from ministers–those who have walked in your shoes, and those who, like the Rev. Meg Riley, just might ask you to come walk awhile...
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A container for grace: reflections on white people, privilege, and pitchforks
These past couple of months, I have been dealing with the fallout from a mistake I made in trying to talk meaningfully about my own white privilege. I shared a facebook post from a seminarian of...
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A Letter to a New Minister (Kendyl Gibbons, on the occasion of my ordination)
My dear Jordinn, You are to be congratulated for your courage, if nothing else, in thus affording me yet one more opportunity to offer you instruction, just in case all my prior efforts now appear to...
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