A Solo Reflection on Prayer, Longing, and an Australian Movie from the 90s
This week's episode breaks from the usual format. Pivot producer Joey Goodall steps in for a solo reflection on what prayer practices are actually for, and what happens when we lose sight of that. He ...
3 Sep 7min
Leadership for a Diverse Church
Eastminster Church has been in Pittsburgh's East Liberty neighborhood since 1856, and for most of that history it worshiped and looked like a fairly typical Presbyterian congregation. Aaron Teter, the...
27 Aug 43min
What Sunday Morning Teaches People About Monday
Katie Roelofs has spent years thinking about the space between Sunday morning and the rest of the week. A pastor in the Reformed Church in America and managing director of the Worship for Workers Proj...
20 Aug 28min
Ministry That Doesn't Rush Toward Results
For twenty years, Johnny Sertin has practiced a kind of place-based ministry built on staying put. He and four other families started the Earlsfield Friary in southwest London, committing to live with...
13 Aug 39min
A Different Kind of Strength
Second Corinthians is one of the strangest letters in the New Testament: a leader defending himself, a community in open doubt, and in the middle of it, some of Paul's clearest writing on power in wea...
29 Juli 43min
The People in Your Church Don't Belong to You
"The church as we know it is calibrated for a world that no longer exists." That's how Dr. Scott Cormode opens his book, and it's the starting point for this conversation about Christian leadership wi...
23 Juli 37min
The Church With No Budget, No Staff, and No Sunday Service
Ten years ago, JR and Amy Rozko planted a two-hundred-year-old congregation in Canton, Ohio, only to discover that what their city needed wasn't another program but a rule of life: a shared rhythm of ...
16 Juli 36min
