We are living in a world where there’s a great deal of stress and disagreement. Churches struggle to decide whether to meet in person, require masks, have singing, and figure out how to navigate the technology of hybrid worship. There is a l...

The conversation you are about to hear is one of the most important we have had on this podcast because it is about one of the most prevalent and difficult issues folks face in every one of our congregations, but also one of the most ignored...

This first episode of our second season is about a topic that has become an integral part of every congregation’s and every pastor’s life: our church’s presence on social media. My guest is Dee Decker, digital and social media strategist for th...

An insightful and stimulating conversation with 7 pastors about the challenges and lessons learned after one year into the COVID-19 pandemic.

Most pastors either embrace our American holidays without question or try to ignore them and hope our congregations won't notice, which they always do. Our conversation with James Calvin Davis, author of American Liturgy: Finding Theological Me...

By the second decade, most pastors have experienced the crises and joys of ministry. We chat with four pastors about what brings them joy and what saps their soul and how the pandemic, in spite of its challenges and difficulties, has confirmed ...

Continuing the honest and insightful conversation with five pastors in their first decade of ministry about the unexpected highs and lows of being a pastor, how the pandemic has made life even tougher, and what they did NOT learn in seminary!

A fascinating and inspiring conversation with five pastors in their first decade of ordained ministry, discussing the adjustments of identity, theory becoming practicality, and questions about whether this is really where God is calling them!

We begin our series on the stages of ministry by having an inspiring conversation with three seminary students (actually, two students and one recent graduate) who are not only preparing for ministry, they are already engaged in it! You, too, w...

This episode begins a series focusing on the stages of ministry from seminary to retirement and beyond. Each episode will feature a conversation with pastors in a different decade of their ministry, and we begin by asking the Rev. Dr. Tim Carga...

The very first episode of this Podcast was published the first week of June and it was a conversation with a half-dozen pastor friends to see how they were coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.  We got together again on the first week of Sept...

Put on your khakis and get ready to crunch the numbers on your...wait for it...membership rolls! That's right! Just as in an election, church membership numbers represent people, and it is important to be knowledgeable, honest, and accurate abo...

Everyone is feeling stressed right now, and that certainly includes pastors who, for nearly nine months now have been improvising their way through a new reality where, as one pastor put it, "all of the most enjoyable parts of ministry have bee...

In this second part of our exploration into what it is like to be a clergy couple, we talk with Josh and Lara Musser Gritter, co-senior pastors of the active 700-member First Presbyterian Church of Salisbury, NC. Lara and Josh share the joys an...

Life is stressful for everyone these days, and that certainly includes pastors! But what if there were two pastors in the family?  Does that mean twice as much stress?  We begin a two-part exploration into what it...

Andrew Taylor-Troutman is a writer and pastor in Chapel Hill, NC, He recently wrote a column for The Presbyterian Outlook titled "Our Very Humannness". In this episode we chat with Andrew about the false fronts pastors sometimes present, the pe...

Jill Duffield, editor and publisher of The Presbyterian Outlook news magazine, shares her observations on the state of the Presbyterian Church and most mainline denominations in the midst of declining numbers, influence, a pandemic, and dramati...

Three months ago we began Pastors4Pastors with a conversation among a half-dozen pastors about what it is like to lead a church in a pandemic that forced them to close their churches' doors.  In this episode we check back in to see how thi...

The Covid-19 pandemic, heightened tensions between races, and the presidential election campaigns are all combining to bring tension and division in our churches and culture. And when our churches cannot meet together for worship or fellowship ...

We are living in the most controversial and divided of times. The Covid-19 pandemic, heightened tensions between races, and the presidential election campaigns are all combining to bring tension and division in our churches and culture. And whe...

The Revs. Kim Priddy and Darryl Aaron are friends and colleagues who have developed a fascinating weekly pattern of sermon preparation they call a laboratory...and a playground.  What makes their story even more interesting and inspiring i...

The work of the Holy Spirit in the creative process of bringing a word from the Lord for the Lord's people is an amazing thing.  How do those messages come to us week by week?!  And then there are special friendships that spark even m...

An inspiring conversation with the Rev. Randy Harris, pastor of Highland Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem, NC, a predominantly white church that is confronting their own white privilege and working against racism.  Randy gives positive...

Conversation with 8 pastors about their experience of adapting to being the church in a time when congregations cannot meet in person, pastors have to adjust to preaching to a camera and an empty sanctuary, and the toll it takes on them and the...