Author: Emma Duncan

How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! Psalm 84:1 Flourishing Congregations is a Canadian organization based out of Ambrose University in Calgary that supports pastors, denominational leaders, and lay leaders with Canadian data on Canadian congregations.  They are an interdisciplinary and ecumenical research centre.  If you have never heard of them, they…

A flyer must fly, and a catcher must catch, and the flyer must trust, with outstretched arms, that his catcher will be there for him. Henri Nouwen I don’t know about you, but I am afraid of heights.  I am also afraid of flying.   And these fears – rational or irrational – have been with…

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 1 Corinthians 12:12 The late Rev. Peter L. Steinke was a Lutheran pastor, writer, psychologist, educator, and author.  Much of his writing applied Murray Bowen’s family systems…

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:1-2) Earlier this year, I finished a course called The Art of Transitional Ministry (Part 1)…