- Author
- Cole, Allen Hugh, ed.
- Publisher
- William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, MI
- ISBN
- 9780802840028
- Table of Contents
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Foreword Michael L. Lindvall Lindvall, Michael L.
ch. 1 The Essential Untidiness of Ministry (Thomas G. Long)
ch. 2 Leadership, Pastoral Identity, and Friendship: Navigating the Transition from Seminary to the Parish (L. Gregory Jones and Susan Pnedleton Jones)
ch. 3 Making the Transition: From a Theology of Ministry to a Ministry of Theology (Ray S. Anderson)
ch. 4 Pulpit Supply (Stephanie Paulsell)
ch. 5 Blackduck (James F. Kay)
ch. 6 Have You Asked a Good Question Today? (Elizabeth F. Caldwell)
ch. 7 Ministry and Clouds of Witnesses (Michael Jinkins)
ch. 8 Fragile Connections: Constructing an Identity in the First Year of Ministry (Carrie Doehring)
ch. 9 The Meandering Ministry (M. Craig Barnes)
ch. 10 The Furnace of Humiliation (Pamela D. Couture)
ch. 11 You Can Never Be Too Smart (Karen Marie Yust)
ch. 12 From Texas Pastor to Princeton Professor (Cleophus J. LaRue)
ch. 13 Contemplation in Action (Anthony B. Robinson)
ch. 14 Spinning Gold from Straw: A Matter of Multiple Vocations (Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore)
ch. 15 Sustaining the Pastoral Life (Earl F. Palmer)
ch. 16 Gossip: The Grace Notes of Congregational Life (Carol L. Schnabl Schweitzer)
ch. 17 Three Teachers (Loren B. Mead)
ch. 18 Bearing a Memory, Sticking Out Like a Sore Thumb, Expressing a Hope (Theodore J. Wardlaw)
ch. 19 A Different Kind of Transition (J. Philip Wogaman)
ch. 20 Learning to Build Christian Community: Males, Whites, Heterosexuals Wanted for Leadership (Traci C. West)
ch. 21 What a Minister Is to Do (Wallace M. Alston Jr.)
ch. 22 Blooming Where We Are Planted (Kathy Dawson)
ch. 23 Between Two Worlds (William H. Willimon)
ch. 24 Lessons Learned (Allan Hugh Cole, Jr.)
Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
In this collection of essays, a seasoned group of ministers, scholars, and theological educators share reflections, born out of personal experience, on the transition from seminarian to minister. All the authors have worked with two assumptions. First, they acknowledge that the school experience, though related, is a different world from the ministry setting. Secondly, they point out that while these arenas share things in common they also differ in significant ways.
The contributors speak in a very personal way to the ways these worlds operate under dissimilar sets of expectations and values, with different cultures and ways of life, and also with their own set of distinct challenges, objective, rewards, and focal points. Honest and full of wisdom, Midterms to Ministry will help students and ministers find help to travel on their own vocational path.
Contributors:
Wallace M. Alston, Ray S. Anderson, M. Craig Barnes, Elizabeth F. Caldwell, Allan Hugh Cole Jr., Pamela D. Couture, Kathy Dawson, Carrie Doehring, Michael Jinkins, L. Gregory Jones, Susan Pendleton Jones, James F. Kay, Cleophus J. LaRue, Thomas G. Long, Loren B. Mead, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, Earl F. Palmer, Stephanie Paulsell, Anthony B. Robinson, Carol L. Schnabel Schweitzer, Theodore J. Wardlaw, Traci C. West, William H. Willamon, J. Philip Wogaman, Karen Marie Yust
(From the Publisher)
The contributors speak in a very personal way to the ways these worlds operate under dissimilar sets of expectations and values, with different cultures and ways of life, and also with their own set of distinct challenges, objective, rewards, and focal points. Honest and full of wisdom, Midterms to Ministry will help students and ministers find help to travel on their own vocational path.
Contributors:
Wallace M. Alston, Ray S. Anderson, M. Craig Barnes, Elizabeth F. Caldwell, Allan Hugh Cole Jr., Pamela D. Couture, Kathy Dawson, Carrie Doehring, Michael Jinkins, L. Gregory Jones, Susan Pendleton Jones, James F. Kay, Cleophus J. LaRue, Thomas G. Long, Loren B. Mead, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, Earl F. Palmer, Stephanie Paulsell, Anthony B. Robinson, Carol L. Schnabel Schweitzer, Theodore J. Wardlaw, Traci C. West, William H. Willamon, J. Philip Wogaman, Karen Marie Yust
(From the Publisher)