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I jsut finished an Andrew Greeley novel called The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain. It was Greeley's typical "locked room" mystery involving the a disappearing priest. In the end of the novel, a young woman w…
One of the challenges of a web log is finding the time to keep it up. I confess that time management wasn't my best subject in school [seriously, maybe seminaries should start offering time management training!] Like e…
What do you have a passion for? My passion is connecting people with their passions for mission, ministry and spiritual growth. Twenty years ago, when I was on the staff of St. Paul UCC in Belleville, IL, my title was …
While I was at a "church planting" event at Mensch Mill, Jim Griffith, the main speaker, told us that between 1990 and 2000, over one hundred thousand churches closed their doors in the United States. I was astounded to…
Dear Friends, I am on my way to a conference on planting new churches, with only a moment to write today. I covet your prayers for Penn Central as we listen for what God is calling us to do in this arena. We do need y…
One of the reasons that I like to be reading two or more books during the same time period is that they often speak to each other in some interesting ways I might not have thought about. I urged you a few days ago to re…
How many people can be changed one at a time? The answer has to be that there is vitually no limit. The impact that even one person can have is incalcuable. Margaret Mead, the anthropologist, is credited with saying, …
Penn Central Conference has announced its selection for this year's One Book:Penn Central reading program. It's a book called Difficult Conversations by Katie Day, a seminary professor in Philadelphia and a Presbyterian…
I'm reading a book called The Bookseller of Kabul. It's not fiction, but it's a fascinating chronicle in its own right. Similar in feel to Reading Lolita in Tehran, which I read last year, it is a little bit of an armc…