The change in tone and direction of today from earlier podcasts is intentional. I hope to be moving more to church leadership in a mindful manner on these excursions and use colleagues both in the Mountain Sky Conference and other conferences to talk an idea (or two or three or six) of leadership.
Our guest is Zach Bechtold. Zach has completed his first year as Pastor at Bozeman UMC in Bozeman, Montana and is part of a wave of younger clergy leading a number of our pillar churches. Zach's LinkedIn page is HERE and is part of where I got my introduction.
Our theme was making new from old.
Zach sees the church year, i.e., Ash Wednesday, All Saints, Easter, as important elements to help him discern how to make new from the old. He also sees connecting with where he has been planted while retaining the connection with remote colleagues as important.
Zach and (new) fellow Mountain Sky pastor Matthew Franks (Castle Rock UMC, Castle Rock, Colorado) have their own Podcast. It is Bearded Theologians and their podcasts are HERE. Both of them are baseball fans, which means by definition, they understand failure, success, sacrifice, perseverance and getting home, safe.
During our discussion, we talk a little about David Foster Wallace and "This is Water." HERE is a good place for both sound (in two bursts on Soundcloud) and the actual text. It is probably NSFW but quite good. I listen to it regularly and I don't agree with all of it, I do find it quite compelling.
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I try to keep these to about 40 minutes but it is a podcast. Stop and restart if you have finished your walk, exercise, dishes, household chores, whatever and we are still talking. This one is 46 scintillating minutes.
My blog is HERE. I will try on occasion to write a piece or three about the topic at hand.
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I apologize for the four + weeks since last podcast. People are simply out of town. Plan I think will be every two weeks. That schedule should start on/about 23/24 July. I hope.
Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Twelve -- Jesus in his humanness
Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Eleven -- The Scandalous Samaritan
Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Ten -- Transfiguration
Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Nine -- The Woman Washes Jesus' Feet -- 900 version
Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Eight -- John the Baptist -- Go Tell John -- 1030 version
Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Eight -- John the Baptist -- Go Tell John -- 900 version
January 29th, Ministry Moment -- Barbara Moeller
Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Six -- Sabbath and Today (with a brief reflection on Methodism)
Scripture will inform us, framed in Experience, Tradition and Reason
Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Six -- Peter makes himself vulnerable
Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Five -- Human Relations Sunday - Jesus preaches a Confrontational Sermon
Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Four -- Epiphany Sunday - John the Baptist
Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Three -- 1st Sunday of Christmas - Simeon and Anna
Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week One -- Advent 4 - Luke and Mary
Narrative Lectionary -- Week Thirteen -- Advent 3: Isaiah 61 (and 59) meet Jesus in Nazareth
Lost in the Night
Narrative Lectionary -- Old Testament Week Twelve -- Joel and Advent 2
Narrative Lectionary -- Old Testament Week Eleven -- Daniel and Advent 1
Narrative Lectionary -- Old Testament Week Ten -- Jeremiah
Narrative Lectionary -- Old Testament Week Nine -- Isaiah, Simon Peter and the Election
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