What do Benedictine monks and United Methodist clergy have in common?
By the Rev. Meredith Dodd | Pastor, Bear Creek United Methodist Church
What do Benedictine monks and United Methodist clergy have in common?
At first glance,...
Leaving Facebook and the Prisons We Make for Ourselves
By the Rev. Cara Scriven | Tacoma District Superintendent
Over the last year, I noticed that I was mindlessly checking Facebook when I had any...
Speaking a Hard Truth-in-Love
To the United Methodist Body of Christ in the Seattle District,
As this year draws to a close, and another begins to birth I pray...
Laughing at Death
By the Rev. Cara Scriven | Tacoma District Superintendent
Early every morning, I sneak out of bed, down into the deep quiet of our home....
Don’t Go It Alone!
By the Rev. Rich Lang | Seattle District Superintendent
This week the clergy of our Conference gather in Vancouver for a Bishop's Symposium. On the one hand this...
Clergy Wellness Corner: “Spiritual Drought”
By Sue Magrath | Sacred Mountain Ministries
It’s been a long, hot summer. Even the western side of the state has had little or no rain in several...
Clarity
By Kellen Head-Corliss | Ministry Intern serving at Bear Creek United Methodist Church
I should start with a thank you to the conference and those who designed...
Ministry, Transitions, and the Spirit at Work
Awaken my soul, come awake
To hunger, to seek, to thirst
Awaken first love
And do as you did at first
- Fall Afresh, Jeremy Riddle
By Rachael Phelps | Ministry...
Past, Present, and Future
By Pastor Nathan Hollifield | Originally in The Spire
Time is a curious sort of thing when we begin to reflect on it deeply. Most of...
How Do We Say Goodbye?
By Leona Weltzer | Epworth LeSourd United Methodist Church Lay Leader
At the end of someone’s life we usually both grieve the loss and celebrate...
