Times & Seasons

A Time to Weed

April 2, 2012
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To say I don’t have a green thumb would be understatement of the year. True, in college, I managed to not kill one of those cheap potted vines you get at the grocery store that seems to have evolved in order to spread itself across a dorm room bookshelf by mid-terms, but I’m not counting that. All I did was give it the ecological niche it was designed for. God and irregular watering did the rest.

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Dear John Letters and Unitarian Universalism

November 21, 2011
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The thing about Dear John letters is this: If the same things keep coming up over and over again, it’s because they’re telling you the truth about yourself.

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Clergy Misconduct Meets Decision Fatigue (Or, Clergy Misconduct, Neatly Explained)

August 25, 2011
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Someone ought to put this NYTimes article on decision fatigue—the theory, backed up by some studies, that willpower is finite resource that depletes with each use—with Deborah Pope-Lance’s lecture on clergy (mostly, sexual) misconduct. If someone were to do put together the two of them together, it might go something like this…

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Lessons Learned from a Christian Hunters Dinner at the Local Megachurch Food Court

August 17, 2011
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If you’re a corporate vendor at a megachurch’s Christian hunters dinner, your shirt should have patches. Lots of them.

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In Between New Posts

June 25, 2011
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So it’s been while since I’ve posted. Okay, more than a while! But did you know that Times & Seasons is updated every three or four days? Let me explain…

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Fitter, Happier, More Transformative

May 26, 2011
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I‘m still thinking about the overwhelming response to my post on ministry burnout. This audio track is offered along the same line but in the spirit of Radiohead’s “Fitter Happier.”

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“Wasn’t He Good?”

May 19, 2011
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He said, “You know, they’ll let you work as hard as you like. But when you’re used up and burned out and gone, all they’ll say is, ‘Wasn’t he good?’”

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The Church That Finds You

April 26, 2011
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We moved cross country several weeks ago, and so we’ve been looking for a new church home. I’ve gone from church membership director to church shopper.

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