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This week and next I invite you to join me in celebrating two of my senior colleagues, Bonnie Miller-McLemore and Pamela Cooper-White. 

Bonnie and Pam are among the most prolific and influential pastoral and practical theologians of the last two decades. 

In my professional life I’ve had an abundance of opportunities to work with senior colleagues and mentors, formally and informally. Each one has shown me important aspects both of what to do — and what not to do. This week, I am sharing five ideas for practical wisdom about doing the work of pastoral and practical theology. 

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A Mother's Day Prayer

A Mother’s Day prayer, but not like the ones I grew up hearing. This prayer is more of a psalm and a lament. It lifts up to God the painful and unspeakable facets of mothering and mother’s day. It also honors the gifts and graces of mothering. God in her wisdom sees and hears it all. There is no truth we cannot pray. 

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Finding our way is not easy. The Pandemic Pastoring Report showed us - we are living in the aftermath of lots of unresolved grief. Some uncertainty about the future of our congregations, and perhaps ministry itself. So we need to talk. We need to meet each other and listen carefully. Together we need to address: what has been lost, what is needed now, and how to move forward. 

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