Recent Entries from TiM Blog

A new Alban / Transition Into Ministry report Becoming a Pastor: Reflections on the Transition into Ministry has been released.

Rev. Laura Mariko Cheifetz has been named director of the Leading Generations initiative at The Fund for Theological Education (FTE). In this newly created position, Cheifetz will connect the growing network of pastoral leaders, theological educators and Christian leaders who have participated in FTE’s programs, which aim to increase the number of gifted and diverse young people considering vocations as pastors and scholars. She will join the FTE staff on March 15.

A closer look at this new book from the perspective of someone who has spent a lot of time transitioning clergy.

Did your Easter sermon say anything?

Preaching in a time of waiting.

Pastors discuss their struggle with “free” time in their lives in the ministry.

Are we responding to the economic crisis from the pulpit?

Thoughts and reflections about death, dying, and the funeral business.

Some reflections on providing pastoral care for those living and dying with cancer.

How does anyone cultivate the competency sufficient to the complexity of pastoral life? 

How did the Apostle Thomas’ friends respond to his time of questioning and doubt?

A message from David J. Wood, coordinator of the Transition Into Ministry Program.

A brief history and background information on the Transition Into Ministry programs.

The first five years of parish ministry set an entire ministry. The habits, the inclinations, the dispositions, the way of understanding vocation is set in those first five years, and it lasts.

Daniel Aleshire, executive Director of the Association of Theological Schools, gave a presentation on the need for a program like Transition Into Ministry.