A Decade in Review
Decades, like years, are arbitrary markers of time. That said, they do offer opportunities to look back and review from whence we came, and possibly reflect on lessons learned. 2010 will remain for me, personally, a more decisive marker than 2020 may possibly be. It became a turning point in my ministry and my life. In the decade prior I dealt with on again, off again, conflict at my church, especially with just a few. I had also been under the cloud of a lawsuit since the spring of 2008. By 2010 the stress had reached what began to feel like a breaking point. In 2010 those opposing my ministry left the church and by the end of fall my lawsuit was settled. I also applied and was accepted at Nashotah House Theological Seminary and began my first classes that summer. It had been 23 years since my graduation from the seminary in Ft. Wayne and I was ready to begin a new chapter. My hope was to possibly teach at a collegiate or post-graduate lev...