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Lent-Easter Worship Resources!
Worship Resources for Lent through Easter are now posted! You can find them... read more
January 11th–Human Trafficking Awareness Day Resources
Please check out the new resources under the Special Resources page for Human... read more
Tuesday Top Ten Post–Top Ten Things You Should Know About My Retreats
A lot of blogs out there have Top Ten Tuesday posts, or Ten on Tuesday posts.... read more
How did Rev-o-lution begin?
As I’ve been updating this site, adding some new links to blogs by fellow... read more
Tag Archives: Pastor Mom
Check out one of my articles on Dmergent!
I became a contributing editor at Dmergent this fall and one of my articles has been featured in the “Best of 2011″ series. In my article “The Intersection of Cesarean Sections and the Cross of Crucifixion” I share both the …
Top Ten Tuesday Tips for Celebrating Christmas (When You’re The Pastor)
As a child, I loved Christmas. As a young adult, I grew to love Advent, this season of darkness preparing for the light that will begin in four weeks (can’t you see me jumping for joy inside?) As a pastor, …
A Tuesday Top “Five” Post on Wednesday
So, I’ve been busy. So busy that I missed last week’s Top Ten Tuesday post and didn’t get this week’s done in time. So here’s a silly Top “Five” Tuesday/Wednesday post on what I’ve been up to: 1. Research, Finding, …
Posted in Family life, Personal, Retreats, Tuesday Top Ten, Worship Resources, Writing
Tagged autism, lectionary worship resources, life, ministry, motherhood, Pastor Mom, writing
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1 in 110 children, 1 in 70 boys
My son has Autism-Spectrum Disorder. He also has a speech delay. We had a wonderful appointment today at the OU Child Study Center–I highly, highly recommend them. It took us 10 months from when we requested the appointment until today, …
Top Ten New Things in my life
Sort of a personal update for a Top Ten List, but here’s what’s going on in my life. 1. This is Tobi, our new puppy. She is about 8 months old (birthday 12/20) and is a Husky/Boxer mix. She is …
Posted in Family life, Personal, Tuesday Top Ten
Tagged life, ministry, motherhood, Pastor Mom, writing
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Tuesday Top Ten Tips for planning maternity/paternity leave from church
This Tuesday Top Ten is inspired by some questions I received from colleagues in planning for maternity/paternity leave from their churches. Especially for female clergy, but also for male clergy expecting children this is often uncharted territory in negotiating with …
Posted in Church life, Family life, Personal, Tuesday Top Ten
Tagged life, ministry, motherhood, Pastor Mom
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Pastor-Mom Moments
Today is my son’s third birthday. When I look at him and see how much he has grown it is hard to believe he was that small (even at 9 lbs 5 oz!) little thing my husband handed to me. …
Posted in Church life, Family life, Personal, Tuesday Top Ten
Tagged life, ministry, motherhood, Pastor Mom
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Tuesday Top Ten Traveling Tips with a Toddler to a denominational gathering
Yeah, I know–such a narrow focus for my readers, but I have better ideas for my Tuesday Top Ten posts in the future. We have been very busy at the Disciples General Assembly in Nashville–between meetings and greetings, we just …
Modeling Progressive Values while buying Chicken McNuggets
I have been stewing on a thought I’ve had since last week when I bought my son McDonald’s for dinner via the drive-thru. Twice. I always imagined I’d be this great progressive mom, and feed my son organic food. He’d …
How did Rev-o-lution begin?
As I’ve been updating this site, adding some new links to blogs by fellow colleagues and friends, I thought for those of you who are new to Rev-o-lution that you might like to know a brief history of how this …
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Tagged life, ministry, Pastor Mom, writing
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