Clinical Pastoral Education: What COMs Need to Know – September 2025 Featured COMma Article
A Monthly Newsletter from the Ministerial Excellence, Support, and Authorization (MESA) Team,...
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Supporting Military Chaplains in the United Church of Christ – August 2025 Featured COMma Article
A Monthly Newsletter from the Ministerial Excellence, Support, and Authorization (MESA) Team,...
Read MoreGeneral Synod 35 – July 2025 Featured COMma Article
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Read MoreExit Interviews: Supporting Healthy Transitions – June 2025 Featured COMma Article
A Monthly Newsletter from the Ministerial Excellence, Support, and Authorization (MESA) Team,...
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Great Expectations
I confess that I have days when I wonder, will we ever see the changes we want to experience...
Read MoreMinistry settings are as diverse as our ministers: Supporting Ministers in Specialized Settings – May 2025 Featured COMma Article
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Read MorePrivilege of Call or Member in Discernment? – April 2025 Featured COMma Article
A Monthly Newsletter from the Ministerial Excellence, Support, and Authorization (MESA) Team,...
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Committed to Inclusion
The United States is a very diverse country and has always prided itself in that diversity....
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Taking Care of the Poor: A Lenten Discipline
The Lenten season begins this week with Ash Wednesday. Lent is a 40-day period of prayer,...
Read MoreHelp! I need to find a Boundary Training class as soon as possible! Does this (fill in the blank) training count for my requirements? – March 2025 Featured COMma Article
A Monthly Newsletter from the Ministerial Excellence, Support, and Authorization (MESA) Team,...
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Risky at Best
Occasionally I get asked why I moved from Jamaica to the United States. My response: “My...
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27 Days and Counting
Recently, I started counting the number of days since Martin Luther King Day. The King holiday...
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“A Prophetic Voice on Capitol Hill” – Fill the JAR – Episode 005
Episode Summary On this episode of Fill the JAR, we talk with Rev. Michael Neuroth,...
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I pray for my Christian siblings who do not accept Queer people like me. May God have mercy on...
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Dear Lord, Let the heavy burdens of our fears, anger, sorrow and anxiety about the futures...
Read MoreWhat do COM members need to do good ministry? – February 2025 Featured COMma Article
A Monthly Newsletter from the Ministerial Excellence, Support, and Authorization (MESA) Team,...
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Creator of all that is just Help us in times we strayCall us in to love deeperCall us out...
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God of rainbow, We come to You in this moment of great challenge and ask for Your guidance...
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Holy One, We ask for you to rain down peace on our world. Where there is family conflict, heal...
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Ever present and everlasting God, we lift up to You today in prayer our hesitant spirits. Wipe...
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