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Linda Bruner is a cradle Methodist, raised in the church as a preacher’s kid. Today, Linda works for the global denomination as senior manager of connectional giving and marketing for United Methodist Communications. We talk with Linda about her enduring United Methodist roots, what generosity means to her and why being part of a local congregation is key to her faith journey.
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In this mini-episode we’re celebrating the lessons learned and the creative expressions of ministry we’re witnessing in the digital parish!
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It’s easy to exist in an echo chamber these days. But the holidays, and Jesus’ story, remind us that beloved community neither begins nor exists in spaces where everyone else is just like us. Beloved community begins when we are intentional about participating in settings where we may not have much in common with some other participants.
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What were indigenous boarding schools and how were Methodists involved?
GUEST:
Rev. Shirley Montoya is an ordained elder in the UMC serving in the Desert Southwest Annual Conference. She was raised in the valley of Shiprock, New Mexico and attended a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school there. She currently lives on the Navajo reservation and serves her community as Project Manager for the Healing Circle Wellness Center in Shiprock, NM.
HOST:
Dr. Ashley Boggan Dreff, General Secretary of the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church. Dreff earned her PhD from Drew Theological School’s Graduate Division of Religion, specializing in both Methodist/Wesleyan Studies and Women’s/Gender Studies. She is the author of Nevertheless: American Methodists and Women’s Rights (2020) and Entangled: A History of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality (2018).
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Mike Kim discusses branding and relationships on Pastoring in the Digital Parish. Mike offers an important way of refocusing how we think about marketing and branding, making them a lot more palatable for those of us wary of business-ifying faith. Mike says that “marketing isn’t about a sale, it’s about beginning a relationship.”
Mike Kim is a business coach and marketing strategist who specializes in personal branding, product launch strategies, and copywriting. He’s the author of You Are the Brand, a book that is super-relevant to the future of the pastorate, especially as it relates to digital ministry.
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How has United Methodism’s racist actions against indigenous nations affected indigenous communities and congregations in 2021? We’ll learn from Ragghi Rain and Cynthia Wilks-Mosley about generational trauma and healing.
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Ragghi Rain is a layperson in the UMC who lives in Delaware on the land of the Nanticoke and Lenape. RagghiRain is a Descent of the Eastern Band of Tsalagi.
Cynthia Wilks-Mosley is a layperson in the UMC who attends St. John Fordville. She is a member of the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Tribe of Indians.
HOST:
Dr. Ashley Boggan Dreff, General Secretary of the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church. Dreff earned her PhD from Drew Theological School’s Graduate Division of Religion, specializing in both Methodist/Wesleyan Studies and Women’s/Gender Studies. She is the author of Nevertheless: American Methodists and Women’s Rights (2020) and Entangled: A History of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality (2018).
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On this episode of the MyCom Church Marketing Podcast, Dan talks to Rev Todd Rossnagel, the Director of Communication Strategies for the Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church. Todd, a podcaster himself, talks about how churches can and should start to consider starting a podcast themselves.
For more information on Todd, you can take a listen at his podcast “Louisiana NOW” at: https://www.la-umc.org/podcast
or contact him at: podcast@la-umc.org
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Food blogger and ministry leader Annette Spence talks about using food to help share God’s love and connect with our neighbors—a practice Jesus knew well.
For more than 20 years, Annette has told the stories of the Holston Conference of The United Methodist Church in her role as editor of the The Call, the conference’s weekly newsletter. Many of these stories are about how churches eat together and use food in their ministries.
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Jacqui Lewis shares how a fierce love that starts with loving ourselves well will change the world. We are fully who we are–fully human–when we realize that we belong to each other. Everyone’s success depends on everyone’s success. So we are called to love one another as we love ourselves.
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis is a public theologian and the senior minister at the multicultural Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan. She’s appeared on CBS, CNN, PBS, ABC and more. She’s written several books, including the just-released Fierce Love–which is a kind of manifesto for offering a healing antidote to our divided culture.
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Licensed social worker and minister, Lindsay Geist, shares practices of rest and healthy boundaries for digital ministers.
One of the possible pitfalls or traps of ministering in a digital parish is that our field of ministry is always active. It’s always on and accessible. By extension, those of us engaged in digital ministry can feel like we need to always be on and accessible… and working weird hours… and responding to everything immediately… and throwing a lot of our personal life into public space.
Rev. Lindsay Geist, MDiv, MSW, LCSW is the Church Transition & Clinical Resource Specialist providing mental health resource support for clergy and congregations in the North Georgia Conference. Lindsay is a Deacon in Full Connection in the North Georgia conference as well as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).