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Should clergy sexual misconduct be against the law? This is one issue on which fundamentalists and feminists agree. On June 15, the Southern Baptist Convention approved a resolution calling for the criminalization of pastoral sexual misconduct. Thirteen years ago, the National Organization for Women (NOW) did the same. It is past time for churches and … Read more

Books@Atla Open Press Publishes New Volume on Bivocational Ministry, by Christine Fruin, May 9, 2022

What do theological educators need to know about bivocational ministry? Listen to the In Trust Center Podcast, Ep.12: Bivocational ministry, May 10, 2022.

It’s official. The book is now published! Bivocational and Beyond: Educating for Thriving Multivocational Ministry is an open access, edited volume for church leaders and those that teach and support them. Buy a hardcopy on Amazon. Download a free electronic version from Books@Atla Open Press. Contributors include bivocational pastors and other reflective practitioners as well … Read more

We Are Witnesses worship series by Discipleship Ministry is inspired by my book, Bearing Witness in the Kin-dom. This is a seven-week lectionary-based worship planning aid, available for free download. What do my book and this worship series have in common? They are both available online at no cost! The book is available free on … Read more

Theological school looks at the reality of multivocational ministry Interview by Matt Hufman, In Trust magazine, Spring 2022. Video of the full interview is found here.

Lay and clergy leaders, come all! Presentations by authors and judicatory leaders. Methodists, Baptists, United Church of Christ, Presbyterian, and more. Only $35 to register, and each registrant will receive the e-book Bivocational and Beyond. Click here for conference information and registration. Conference Organizers and Facilitators The Rev. Dr. Renée C. Jackson is Minister for … Read more

While the collection includes critiques of racism, it cannot be seen as an antiracist collection. See my review at the American Academy of Religion’s Reading Religion website. T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Ethics, edited by Tobias Winright. Bloomsbury Academic, January 2021.

Ministry, money, and graduate theological education—for Black students, multivocational ministry provides the connection and the possibility for serving the communities that need them the most. This is one of a series of video posts from the authors of Bivocational and Beyond: Educating for Thriving Multivocational Ministry (forthcoming April 2022). This book is an edited volume … Read more

With the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, church leaders may wonder what their tradition teaches. Recently, I was asked about Methodist perspectives on war and peace. It’s all over the map. Methodists in the United States are as conflict averse as they are patriotic. This presents a conundrum when the nation is at war. Historically, … Read more