I love to read. It is my free time activity that gives me the most joy - it feeds my soul. Honestly, this pandemic has stolen reading from me. I probably read about a third as often as I did before all this. In my free time, I am more likely to zone out than that focus -- to consume mindless … [Read more...]
2020 Books and Reading
Reading is one of the things that serves multiple purposes in my life. It helps to make sure that I am growing as a person, as a leader, and as a preacher. It sparks my creativity. It makes me happy. But 2020 was a year! With the stress of the pandemic, a civil rights crisis, and an economic … [Read more...]
Carol Howard Merritt – Healing Spiritual Wounds (Review)
TLDR version: A much needed resource for people of faith, and for those in ministry. Increasingly, those of us in ministry are finding ourselves spending more time with people who are either new to the church or returning to the church. Once upon a time, people were raised in the church and stayed … [Read more...]
