Former FTE Vice President for Doctoral Programs and Administration
January 12, 2009
What’s going on?
I had many conversations over the past several weeks---with family around the dinner table, with friends at holiday house parties, with familiar people in my neighborhood grocery store check-out line, and with random strangers in department store parking lots as we all rushed to place our purchases in the trunks of our cars. Everyone had plenty to talk about: the economy, politics, high food prices, job lay-offs, terrorism, the war in Iraq, the education of our children and on and on and on. Some level of anxiety seemed to permeate many of these conversations. There just weren’t too many folks feeling optimistic about very much. On one occasion, I found myself asking, “What do you think we need to get out of this mess?” Some said, “We need good leadership!” Others suggested, “Trouble don’t last always!” In many respects these responses were on target. It seems to me --- good leadership and hope may very well go hand in hand during times like these.
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Vice President for Ministry Programs and Planning
January 07, 2009
A few days before Christmas, amidst the growing anticipation of new life we Christians celebrate as Advent, I heard a commentary on NPR about in-vitro fertilization (IVF). (http://kut.org/items/show/15152). More than a half-million frozen embryos are currently being stored in American facilities and thousands more are being added each year. Some will be thawed out, implanted into a mother and grow into real, live babies; others will be kept for future use, either as siblings to the now-born babies or … well, that’s the problem, the “or for what.”
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Former President, The Fund for Theological Education
January 01, 2009
And so the new year begins. As we waited for midnight last night with our 12-year-old son, I was reminded how anti-climactic New Year’s Eve always seemed. All of the excitement and build-up to the moment the ball drops (or in Atlanta, the moment the peach drops), a few minutes of cheering and dancing, a chorus of “Auld Lang Syne,” and then…and then…
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Former President, The Fund for Theological Education
December 05, 2008
Welcome to our new blog, a place where we will share ideas, thoughts and insights about listening for and discerning God’s call. On Call is a place where we will share what’s meaningful and what seems to be missing in the conversation about vocation. On Call is a place where we renew our commitment to be “on call” for the church, for theological education and for the future of pastoral leadership.
We meet so many young people who are asking the question, “What will I do with my life in light of my faith?” We trust that God is calling many gifted young people to leadership as pastors and as theological educators. But how do those young people know? How do they hear that call? What role do friends, family, pastors, congregation members, professors, chaplains and others play in the discernment process? And what can all of us do to help?
We hope you will visit our blog regularly as we share new insights, as we explore new possibilities, and as we make our resources available to you and your community. God has called us to be on call for the church, to be on call for you. We’re listening. Join us.
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