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A pastor for almost two decades, Carol Howard Merritt as served Presbyterian (USA) churches in the swamps of Cajun Louisiana, a bayside village in Rhode Island, and an urban neighborhood of Washington, DC. Her committee and board work with the church includes serving as Moderator of the Special General Assembly Committee on the Nature of the Church in the 21st Century. This breadth and depth of practical experience informs her consultations with denominational governing bodies, seminaries, and local churches.
The award-winning author of Tribal Church: Ministering to the Missing Generation, Reframing Hope: Vital Ministry in a New Generation, and Healing Spiritual Wounds: Reconnecting with a Loving God After Experiencing a Hurtful Church. Carol is a frequent contributor to books, websites, magazines, and journals. She is a regular writer at the Christian Century where her blog is hosted.
Carol is an Adjunct Faculty member at Dubuque Theological Seminary and a Senior Consultant at Center for Progressive Renewal. She is a founder and host of UNCO, an open-space “unconference” that attracts church leaders across denominations and generations. Since 2011, a growing community of participants meets to generate ideas and develop plans for ministry.
You can find Carol on Twitter, Facebook, and on her website.
Episode 175 | What Do you Want?
Episode 174 | Getting Back At It
Episode 173 | Advent with Ruth Haley Barton
Episode 172 | Piles
Episode 171 | What are you supposed to do with those lemons?
Episode 170 | An Alternative to Pushing Through
Episode 169 | Finding Holy in the Suburbs with Ashley Hales
Episode 168 | Reflections on Oscar Romero on the Eve of his Sainthood
Episode 167 | Angsty Book Proposals with Erin Lane
Episode 166 | A Flexible Faith with Bonnie Kristian
Episode 165 | Raise Your Voice with Kathy Khang
Episode 164: Live at Art House North with Tov Music and Shawn Smucker
Episode 163 | Learning to Speak God from Scratch with Jonathan Merritt
Episode 162 | The Unlikely Seminarian with Dan Cook
Episode 161 | Now
Episode 160 | The Eternal Current with Aaron Niequist
Episode 159 | Experiments in Honesty with Steve Daugherty
Episode 158 | The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle with Sarah Arthur
Episode 157 | Rethinking Incarceration with Dominique Gilliard
Episode 156 | I'm Still Here with Austin Channing Brown
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