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In all our talk of “excellence” there may be a word we are forgetting. It is “love,” says Bishop Kenneth Carder, the agape love that calls, forms, guides, empowers, and sustains excellent ministry.
“It was like it says in Joel 2:25,” one pastor says of the SPE program at Boston University School of Theology: “I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten...”
As the Women Touched by Grace program draws to a close, the Rev. Sally M. Brower says she and other participants learned that sustaining pastoral excellence means ministering to each other in travail and in transition.
Across New England—and now expanding elsewhere—Episcopal Divinity School’s Pastoral Excellence Program is working with pastors and lay leaders to find out how seminaries can better serve rural churches. A report from Fredrica Thompsett.
Episcopalians found occasion for both celebration and concern in the Episcopal Clergy Wellness Report, prepared by Credo Institute Inc. and affirmed this summer by the 75th General Convention.
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