An Incomplete Field Guide to Ministry
Welcome to an Incomplete Field Guide to Ministry from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Professors Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware are bringing the discussions from their Ministerial Leadership and Public Church courses out into the wider world. Get in touch: [email protected]
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 60 minutes
- Episodes
- 25
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
The Future of Theological Education & and a Conversation with Pastor Carrie Ballenger
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware reflect on some of the challenges and opportunities facing institutions, professors, and students within theological education today. How do we adjust to…
Trusting our Gifts in the Face of Overwhelm, with Dr. Eunyung Lim
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware finish the series on Overwhelm, centering our inherent gifts and capacities in the face of a lie that we will never be enough or that we are failures for…
Overwhelm, Isolation, and a Conversation with Emily Moentmann
Overwhelm and Intersectionality, with Vance Blackfox
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware continue the series on Overwhelm, looking at intersecting oppressions and marginalizations, and ministry in the midst of different identities. How does o…
Overwhelm and the Temptation of Control, with Franklin Golden and Veronica Mwakasungura.
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware continue the series on Overwhelm. Today: Control will not save us. What does fear of losing control encourage us to do? What institutions and practices l…
Overwhelm, Care, and a Conversation with Katie Mueller
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware tackle a series on Overwhelm. How do we anchor ourselves while caring for trauma in the midst of trauma? What strategies do we turn to? And what joys do …
We're back! Let's talk Leisure & Labor, Joy & Overwhelm.
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware are back for another season of an Incomplete Field Guide to Ministry, covering lessons from our summer about rest, holding joy and sorrow, and facing exh…
The Experiment Worked!
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware wrap up a season and a semester. They reflect on lessons learned, the value of speaking outside a narrow area of expertise, and the bold exploratory conv…
Accountable Ministry & Sharing Leadership
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware discuss accountability. How can our ministry be accountable, not just to the church that hires the pastor, but to the broader community as well? How do w…
Power and Relationships and Politics Oh My!
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware discuss church and society, community organizing, and power. What's so scary about power anyway? Where does it show up in Christian community? And how ca…
Anti-Asian Racism, Preaching, & Working for Liberation
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware discuss mass shootings, preaching, and anti-Asian racism in the United States. What's the role of our words as Christian leaders before and after mass sh…
The Pandemic & Work, Faith & Organizing
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware continue their multi-week conversation about the pandemic, reflecting particularly on work. How has our labor changed, and not changed, during the pande…
The Pandemic & Relationships, Liturgy & Creation
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware continue their multi-week conversation about the pandemic, looking particularly at relationships.
Our guest today is LSTC faculty member Rev. Dr. Benjam…
The Pandemic & Healthcare, Public Church & Scripture
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware continue their multi-week conversation about the pandemic, looking particularly at Healthcare. What inequities does the pandemic reveal? How does medical…
The Pandemic & Trauma
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware begin a multi-week conversation about the pandemic. How do we think about the pandemic from a faith perspective? What does it reveal, and what does it ch…
Public Church: Is There Any Other Kind?
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Advent & Podcasting
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware talk Advent, podcasting, and what we've learned so far. We've been accompanying the Ministerial Leadership 1 course by Dr. Wagner during the Fall semeste…
Care, Justice, and Resisting White Supremacy
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware talk about modeling care and justice, preaching hard messages, and resisting white supremacy.
Our first guest today is not a guest! Marvin Wickware takes…
Christian Education & Evangelism
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware talk Christian education and evangelism at the half-way point in the semester. How can evangelism be accountable? How can Christian education be accessib…
The Life Giving Power of Listening
Our hosts Kimberly Wagner and Marvin Wickware talk, and listen, about the many ways ministerial leaders are called to listen. What are we listening for? What if we don't know how to solve the challen…