I’m beginning work on a book on stewardship. Except I don’t want to call what I’m writing about “stewardship” for two reasons: 1) Stewardship means a lot more than money, but I really want to talk about money and don’t want to shortchange stewardship of gifts, the...
Holy Easter, Batman
posted by DJL
I honestly don’t think I’m sharing this to make fun of anyone but, to be frank, I can’t tell for sure. 🙂 I found the following advertisement so funny, and yet when I went to the church’s website (complete with promo video) I found their desire to retell the Easter...
Greener Pastures
posted by DJL
Seth Godin recently pointed me to the following pictograph that depicts the difference between the way people think professional photographers spend their time and the way they actually do. (Godin, in turn, found it from SwissMiss, who found it on a photography blog, and so on. That’s the...
Monday/Sunday
posted by DJL
So here’s a suggestion that I think would almost instantly reverse the church decline we’ve all heard about, read about, experienced, and are tired of. I think Sunday is on the wrong day. You see, Sunday is on the weekend. And we’ve gotten pretty used to the weekends being, well, you...
Mommy Wars
posted by DJL
I read a blog post by Libby Anne recently that caught my attention and I wanted to share it with you. It’s about the “mommy wars.” You may have heard the term. It describes the plight of mothers today who, in contrast to many women of previous generations, must choose between staying at...
Making Room for Regret
posted by DJL
Three things prompt my sharing Kathryn Schultz’s TEDTalk on regret. The first is one of the lectionary readings appointed for this Sunday, Jeremiah 31:31-34, that talks about God forgetting Israel’s sins. In a column I wrote on this passage for preachers, I suggested that we might all take a leaf from God’s notebook and a) trust that God really does forget our sins and b) maybe we should try to forget them – and those of others – as well. But Kathryn’s talk, entitled “Don’t Regret Regret,” reminded me that some things are worth remembering – including some of our regrets. Why? Because our regrets can...