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Pamela Fickenscher
Pamela Fickenscher is pastor of Edina Community Lutheran Church in Edina, Minnesota. She blogs at Living Word by Word, part of the CCblogs network.
The spiritual dangers of alumni magazines
If you graduated from college, you know the drill. Every so often a magazine arrives in your mailbox, full of glossy photos of happy, successful people....
Coaching has to be sense-ible
My ears perked up when I heard that Atul Gawande--my favorite surgeon/writer--has a piece in the New Yorker about coaching for professionals. You can read the whole thing online here.
Faith, disaster and metaphors
I've been thinking lately about disasters -- not only how
frequently they have dominated the news this calendar year, but the...
Reasons we don't fast
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus enjoins his disciples, "when you
fast, do not do as the hypocrites do. . . " So I guess it's possible...
Off-road ministry: What I learned from mountain biking
For five years I was pastor of a congregation of mostly 20- and 30-somethings, a group some would call postmodern or “emergent.” Spirit Garage was born in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis, an area populated by thousands of young people. In those days people would ask me about our model or formula for this ministry. I always found it hard to describe. But after taking up a new sport, I found an apt comparison: ministry in the postmodern era is like racing mountain bikes.
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