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David J. Wood
David J. Wood is senior minister at Glencoe Union Church in Illinois. With Andrew Root, he is co-directing a Lilly Endowment funded project: From Relevance to Resonance: Exploring the Practices of Transcendence in Ministry and Congregational Life.
Hartmut Rosa says we’re running faster just to stay in place
The German sociologist’s theory of “resonance” offers an alternative: deceleration.
October 14, 2021
I wish Francis Su had been my third-grade math teacher
Su’s book is about math and human flourishing. It’s also about how to be a teacher.
August 26, 2020
Is evangelicalism at war with science?
It depends which evangelicals you’re asking.
January 11, 2019
The witness of Eugene Peterson
Peterson never delivered a formula for success. He just wrote about pastoral work and how to live it.
October 29, 2018
Scientists welcome: A challenge for congregations
The geophysicist's talk had none of the triumphalism of efforts to prove God exists. It was the testimony of experience—and it was unequivocal doxology.
July 23, 2015
The pastor and other sinners
To Eugene Peterson, a church is not a demarcated zone of idealized community. The potential for misdirection and distraction abounds.
April 15, 2014
From Midterms to Ministry: Practical Theologians on Pastoral Beginnings
Over the past eight years, I had the privilege of serving as program coordinator for the Lilly Endowment’s Transition into Ministry grants program....
November 2, 2009
The Way Is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago
Erasmus, writing in the early 16th century, provided a scathing critique of the waning, often abusive practi...
January 26, 2009
A second time around
What books compel a second—or third or fourth—reading? How is the second reading different from the first, and what does the difference reveal about the book or the reader? We asked ten writers, including Margaret Miles, Gordon Atkinson, Mary Doria Russell, Diana Butler Bass and David Cunningham, to name a book that they chose to reread, and to share their reactions "the second time around."
October 20, 2008
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Pastors need to reflect on their lives--on what they do, why they do it, and how such doing shapes a way of life. F. Dean Lueking and John Galloway Jr....
September 19, 2003
Prime time: Albert Borgmann on taming technology
For Albert Borgmann, philosophy is a way of taking up the questions that reside at the center of everyday life—questions that are urgent but often inarticulate....
August 23, 2003
Pastors on purpose
Leadership on the Line:Staying Alive Throughthe Dangers of Leading.By Ronald A. Heifetz and MartyLinsky. Harvard Business School,252 pp., $27.50....
May 21, 2002
“The best life”: Eugene Peterson on pastoral ministry
Eugene Peterson on pastoral ministry
March 13, 2002
Where are the younger clergy? Affirming vocations: Affirming vocations
The number of ordained clergy age 35 or under in mainline denominations is remarkably low....
April 11, 2001