Unofficial pastoral exchange program My time as a Lutheran leader By Mary Robin Craig It wasn’t exactly an exchange program—there was no trade involved. But for the past fourteen months, I served an ELCA congregation as its interim pastor. It was an unexpected adventure in my call as a teaching elder in the PC(USA)…. Read more »
March 24, 2017
God in All Things
Unofficial pastoral exchange program My time as a Lutheran leader By Mary Robin Craig It wasn’t exactly an exchange program—there was no trade involved. But for the past fourteen months, I served an ELCA congregation as its interim pastor. It was an unexpected adventure in my call as a teaching elder in the PC(USA)…. Read more »
Do not be afraid Changing the way we think of suicide By Mary Robin Craig Within a few days of my son’s death by suicide, a chaplain said to me, “You can’t stop people. If they are determined to end their lives, they will.” I could not fathom how that might be comforting news, but… 
Church at a Paul McCartney concert? The joy of sharing history and hope By Mary Robin Craig Was that . . . church? There was a call to worship, in the form of a driven, pounding “Hard Day’s Night.” There were confessions, in the form of humorous anecdotes illuminating early years of learning and recording….