Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions
Martha Tatarnic
December 4, 2024
If I had known how bad the email was going to be, I would have opened it more carefully. It was the kind of missive
If I had known how bad the email was going to be, I would have opened it more carefully. It was the kind of missive
I got the idea to have a Taylor Swift music night at our Wednesday evening Advent Café service. Advent Café is one of our worship
There’s a famous quote by hockey great Wayne Gretzky that gets floated out in leadership circles, including the church, on a semi-regular basis: “Skate to
Sometimes I fail as a pastor. I am someone who can turn myself inside out about all of the ways in which I don’t measure
I’m a runner and a priest. This means that my congregation is regularly subjected to running metaphors in my preaching. Sometimes the metaphors work the
I was having a conversation with a group of thoughtful and creative clergy recently. “It can be hard to talk about success in the church,”
For whenever I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:10) I was recently asked how I deal with that negative voice in my
We expect that the Bible will continue to have new things to teach us. It might be surprising, however, for many of the faithful to
When Bill Morris was seven years old, he and his cousin were out hunting in their Northern Ontario community. They heard a plane land and
Our family took our first post-pandemic trip this summer, returning to P.E.I., one of our favourite places. I grew up steeped in the writing of
Our awesome friend Jeff used to help my husband Dan and me lead youth group canoe trips when we were serving at churches in the
Often, there are tools at our disposal that help us in our ministry context. Yet, we may not always be familiar with them, know how
I met Tanya Kuzmanovic when I was a new ordinand, just starting out in ministry at St. Jude’s in Oakville, and she was a new
I understand where the question comes from. People want to make conversation. We look for points of contact, things that we know about one another,
A few years ago, I topped off my three-month sabbatical with a trip to Elliot Lake to visit my Aunt Linda and Uncle Murray. We
Our little puppy Bruce needs to be carried down the stairs every morning for his first outside of the day. He finds this almost unbearably
As some of our readers know, I began receiving ministry coaching in the fall of 2020 from the Very Reverend Peter Elliott, retired dean of
My daughter and I had been watching the Instagram feed of one celebrity couple over the holidays, hoping for an engagement. Instead, they broke up
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