Going on to Perfection...

We've arrived safely in India, and have spent the past few days in the Bangalore area. We stayed at the Fireflies Ashram, a place that ...

Sundays are always busy days for pastors. I knew this going into ministry, but I wasn't prepared for the full extent of how much of a d...

I'll be one of the first to tell you that grades don't really matter in the long run. What matters is the work you put into the cla...

Student Health Insurance doesn't cover anything . You would think that since students are prone to traveling (because when else in your...

Thinking about this past week, Christmas seemed a little surreal. No snow (not the first time), no heavy-duty apartment decoration except f...

Once again, I have fallen behind on my blogging (both in writing and in keeping up with posts others have written). This time, it was due t...

It's nice to be back in New England. For one thing, there's snow on the ground (and there was snow as we were coming up; it wasn...

A couple days ago I turned 25 - a quarter of a century years old. I don't feel that much older, but I suppose I now definitively fall i...

I'm finding it abnormally difficult to concentrate on this chilly, November morning. Perhaps because it's Monday and normally my da...

I blinked, and November is already well under way. Surprising and a little unnerving, especially since I signed up for NaNoWriMo on a whim...

Last weekend was my church's annual Candy Making event for our upcoming Harvest Festival. We gathered in the afternoon in the home of ...

1. If you were a food, what would you be? Chicken Noodle Soup. Comforting and familiar, most people like it, and it's good for you. ;-)...

I did not really just eat a whole box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Except, I just did. Comfort Food: 1, Melissa: 0. But I only u...

Drew Theological School's Tipple-Vosburgh lectures were this week. Class prevented me from attending most of the workshops and the le...

I haven't played in awhile...but here goes! Does everyone remember the old Sunday School song? The B-I-B-L-E, Oh, that's the book fo...

I read a blog post at the Questing Parson the other day that really made me stop and think for a moment about local churches and how each ...

As I mentioned in my previous post, life happened this past week. I was supposed to be in Nashville this weekend for the emergingumc gathe...

I meant to post earlier, but life happened this week (more on that in a post to come). Preaching. What's the first image that comes to ...

Now that my paper is safely in the hands of my professor, I feel like I can ask this question of you all: What does it mean to preach? Wher...

My church planting class recently had dinner with Tim Lucas, who is the lead pastor of liquid church in Morristown, NJ. The church is six ...