People
If there is one thing we have discovered in the Transition into Ministry program, it is the importance of pastors connecting in meaningful ways with each other. Being in conversation with others who are likewise in the early years of ministry has a measurable impact on one’s ability to grow in and through the experience of ministry. One of the most frequent laments we hear from pastors is how lonely ministry can be—especially as a young person in a congregation with few young people and in a culture where there are few peers who chose let along understand the choice of ministry as a vocation.
Under this PEOPLE tab, we will post all the online communities of beginning pastors that we feel confident will provide a place of connection for pastors in the early years of ministry who are look for fellow travelers. If you would have a group that you would like to list here, please contact and we will review your request. We depend upon your recommendations to grow this list and its usefulness.
Blogs by TiM Pastors:
- Carabiner
- The blog of the Pastoral Residency Program St. Paul Lutheran Church, Davenport, Iowa
- Faith Musing
- Thoughts on life and faith from the perspective from Amy Yarnall, a UMC pastor in Chesapeake City, MD.
- NathanDayWilson
- Nathan D. Wilson is a Disciples of First Christian Church, Shelbyville, IN
- Rev. Rachel Writes
- Glimpses of God in everyday life from Rachel Cornwell, a UMC pastor in Silver Spring, MD
Blogs by/for Young Clergy
- Fidelia’s Sisters
- An online publication by, for, and about young clergy women, with new material appearing on a rotating schedule over the course of a month.
- A Wee Blether
- From a student at Columbia Theological Seminary, I’m completing a yearlong church internship/assistant ministership at St. Columba Church in Ayr, Scotland. My brilliant and beautiful wife Megan is with me to help appease the locals as I figure out what it means to be a pastor.
- Young Clergy
- A blog for young clergy in the United Methodist Church.
- The Young Clergy Women Project
- The Young Clergy Women Project is an initiative---a collection of new programs that are by, for and about the youngest ordained women, defined as those under forty.
Blogs by Others:
- The Beatitudes Society
- The Beatitudes Society develops and sustains emerging Christian leaders at seminaries and divinity schools as they study, teach and practice the prophetic wisdom of Jesus as expressed in the Beatitudes. A blog and so much more.
- Emergent Village
- The blog connected with the movement known as Emergent
- Emerging from Babel
- I am a postmodern Christian. Complexity, ambiguity, and a plurality of opinions are a fact of life. “Our deepest obedience cannot be to an absolute norm, but to the (multivocal) biblical texts themselves.” I also emphatically support the pro-peace orientation of the Emerging Church. He who refused to take up the sword against his enemies, and refused to call on a legion of angels to destroy them, but absorbed the full brunt of their violence in his own person: he himself is our peace. I am very fond of Walter Brueggemann’s dictum: believers continually journey from orientation through disorientation to a new orientation. Whence the process begins all over again.
- Emerging Women
- A blog by women in the Emergent church movement
- Everyday Liturgy
- At the crux of everyday life is our everyday liturgy: worldview and worship seeking to navigate the waters between the banks of Christianity and Life (which over time should become indistinguishable). Our contributors hold evangelical, emergent, mainline, Catholic and Orthodox perspectives.
- A Peculiar Prophet
- A blog by Bishop William Willimon of the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church; formerly, Chaplain at Duke University
- Theolog
- The Blog of The Christian Century
