In this chapel sermon, Dr. Anna Robbins invites listeners to reconsider the Lord’s Prayer beyond a routine liturgy, and instead as a personal surrender that reshapes how we live. Anna traces a line from quiet prayer to Gethsemane, and from there to lives marked by costly obedience. Anna explores how the kingdom takes root through our surrendered lives.

In our conversation with Rev. Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim, we explore how climate change is not a side issue but something that runs through every part of ministry. Grace connects water justice, theology, and lived experience, inviting leaders to see creation care as deeply spiritual and deeply practical. Rev. Dr. Ji-Sun Kim introduces concepts like han and chong, giving us a richer language for suffering, connection, and love.

Revisiting our Creative Ways keynote session from 2024 - in it, Brady Shearer breaks down how social media has shifted and why that change opens new doors for ministry. He offers practical guidance on turning sermons into content, building consistent rhythms, and focusing less on metrics and more on people.

In our conversation with Fr. Joash Thomas, we explore how empire, certainty, and control have quietly shaped Western Christianity, and what it might look like to recover a more liberating, embodied faith. Drawing from his own journey and his book The Justice of Jesus, Joash invites ministry leaders to wrestle with justice, decolonization, and the cost of courage. It’s a challenging conversation that calls us all to a fuller vision of the gospel.

How can preaching help heal a church that’s been divided by conversations around sexuality?

In this recast from a Knox College book launch, Dr. Sarah Travis and a panel of ministry leaders explore how preaching might become a space for repair, honesty, and renewed connection. Drawing from Sarah’s book Remembering the Body, the conversation holds space for complex themes of affirmation, uncertainty, and the lived reality of diverse congregations.

Rev. Julielee Stitt reflects on her unexpected path into ministry, the role of curiosity in building community, and the gift of serving in places where people truly know one another. She shares about calling, risk, and the decision to step away from a stable career into something less certain but more meaningful.

The Ministry Forum Podcast returns this May. Expect a mix of fresh conversations and meaningful recasts, including a thoughtful exploration of rural ministry with Rev. Julie Lee Stitt, along with sessions from Rev. Dr. Sarah Travis and Brady Shearer. It’s a shorter, slightly eclectic season, but one shaped by the same desire to connect, encourage, and resource ministry leaders. Consider this an open invitation to listen in, catch up, and be part of the conversation.

What does faithful ministry look like in the middle of an opioid, housing, and poverty crisis? In our conversation with Rev. Dr. Mark Lewis, we hear the remarkable story of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Hamilton—a congregation that expected to close but instead chose radical hospitality. Mark shares how the church opened its doors to a safe injection site, partnered with community agencies, faced daily heartbreak, and rediscovered its mission through compassion. He reflects honestly on fear, resilience, burnout, and the surprising ways God reshapes a church when it asks, Who needs our help, and how can we use what we have for good?