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Christmas humor: Top 10 gifts to pastors

One evening several Christmases ago — not too long after I had resigned from my pastoral position — I started compiling a list of all the things I thought would make for a flourishing pastor-congregational relationship.

20 December 2019
18 December 2019
Waiting for Jesus
Editor, The Christian Citizen
16 December 2019
Good shall overcome
13 December 2019
“Singing the (Advent) Jailhouse Blues”
Editor, The Christian Citizen
11 December 2019
The grief of Advent
Editor, The Christian Citizen
9 December 2019
Companionship: A response to social isolation and loneliness
Editor, The Christian Citizen
27 November 2019
From classism to community: Consider the poor, forgotten this Thanksgiving
Editor, The Christian Citizen
20 November 2019
Recovering the civil discourse our nation needs
Editor, The Christian Citizen
15 November 2019
Of trees and thornbushes
13 November 2019
Thou shalt achieve world peace through humor
Editor, The Christian Citizen
4 November 2019
How to Be an Antiracist—A Prescription for Healing America (Book Review)
Editor, The Christian Citizen
30 October 2019
Why wouldn’t God wake a sleeping cat?
28 October 2019
An ode to a plastic urn: How a small trash can shapes beauty
21 October 2019
What we don’t talk about
18 October 2019
Giving mental health awareness the right place in the church
Editor, The Christian Citizen
11 October 2019
The value of compromise
Director, Community Outreach Ministries & Rizpah’s Children, ABHMS
9 October 2019
The Other Wes Moore (Book review)
Editor, The Christian Citizen
4 October 2019
World Communion Sunday celebrates oneness in Christ
Editor, The Christian Citizen
2 October 2019
Why I am an American Baptist—A testimony and a hope
27 September 2019
Be the calmest person in the room
25 September 2019
When nothing helps—faith and doubt amid unbearable loss
23 September 2019
Effectiveness, individual and communal
19 September 2019
Is American Christianity oppressive? 
18 September 2019
Hurricane Maria’s Puerto Rico legacy transcends devastation, destruction
Director, Discipleship Ministries, ABHMS
13 September 2019
Returning to Sunday school
Editor, The Christian Citizen
26 August 2019
A man called Ove
Editor, The Christian Citizen
23 August 2019
The urgent need for acts of loving kindness
21 August 2019
Puppets on a string: a broader view of discipleship
Editor, The Christian Citizen
19 August 2019
Give the king your justice, O God
16 August 2019
A call to American Baptists
14 August 2019
All I am saying is give peace a chance
Executive Director, ABHMS
12 August 2019
The Work of Prayer, Part 2
Editor, The Christian Citizen
9 August 2019
Expressions of ethnic nationalism, pretensions to racial superiority have no place in Christ’s church
Executive Director, ABHMS
7 August 2019
The Work of Prayer, Part 1    
7 August 2019
Let us live the ‘The Birmingham Pledge’  
Editor, The Christian Citizen
5 August 2019
A true peace plan will be known by its fruit
Executive Director, ABHMS
2 August 2019
Holding on to our Faith in God
Executive Director, ABHMS
31 July 2019
When is prayer not enough?       
29 July 2019
From dwellers to seekers – understanding and engaging millennials for the present and future health of the church
Editor, The Christian Citizen
26 July 2019
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls for religious pluralism and freedom for all as second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom begins
Executive Director, ABHMS
25 July 2019
A Source of Courage
Editor, The Christian Citizen
24 July 2019
Recent books I have loved
22 July 2019
Chasing equality—remembering the first moon landing while reclaiming the history that racism and sexism obscured
Editor, The Christian Citizen
19 July 2019
The limits of toleration: China’s crackdown on religion
Editor, The Christian Citizen
15 July 2019
Attend at your own risk: Welcoming the (food allergic) children in His name
Executive Director, ABHMS
10 July 2019
No War With Iran Statement
8 July 2019
Pray for the spiders
Editor, The Christian Citizen
5 July 2019
Motorcycles, tribalism and America – What I learned riding in Rolling Thunder.
Editor, The Christian Citizen
3 July 2019
What is the sense of our small effort?
Editor, The Christian Citizen
1 July 2019
Having a mission in life

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