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3 Minute Ministry Mentor
by 3 minute Ministry Mentor
Three Minute Ministry Mentor (3MMM) offers weekly resources for learning and deepening your practice of ministry. Our weekly episodes strive both to inform and inspire your learning for the sake of ministry. Each week we also invite you to take time to notice, appreciate and wonder how you are growing and changing as a ministry leader.
Episodes
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Episode 103: How to Worship
This episode is the final installment in a series of interviews with Rev. Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes. Host Eileen Campbell-Reed asks Cláudio for his wisdom, encouragement, and support for all who are leading worship. Recognizing the crises constantly happening in the world around us and in our own...
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Episode 102: How to Pray
This podcast is part III of a series of interviews host Eileen Campbell-Reed shares with Rev. Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes. Here they discuss Cláudio’s work on the book, Liturgies from Below. The book is a collection of prayers from people living on the margins in places around the world. Cláudio…
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Episode 101: Sustaining Creativity
In this episode, host Eileen Campbell-Reed continues an interview with scholar, artist, and liturgist Rev. Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes. Here Cláudio discusses how he sustains his creative process throughout his life and in all the many different forms his work takes. From lecturing to preaching to his...
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Episode 100: Creative Process
Listen in as host Eileen Campbell-Reed interviews scholar, artist, and liturgist Rev. Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes. In 2023 Cláudio produced and played the main character in his very first play. In this conversation, we hear about Cláudio’s creative process in putting the musical play together. Cláudio...
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Episode 99: Teaching Pastoral Imagination
In this episode, host Eileen Campbell-Reed discusses her book, Pastoral Imagination. The world around us is ever-changing, and it’s a new era of ministry for pastors, chaplains, activists, and other leaders. Pastoral imagination is about learning in practice, deepening conversations and...
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Episode 97: Transition and Grief
What can taking out the trash teach us about transition and grief? In these reflections from the summer of 2024, host Eileen Campbell-Reed helps us consider the concrete and measurable losses we’ve faced as well as the more ambiguous losses and transitions in our lives. Eileen reminds us that…
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Episode 96: Unearthing Treasure
Listen in as host Eileen Campbell-Reed shares her experience of unearthing treasure while she cleaned out her parents’ house in the spring and summer of 2024. Like so many of us, Eileen’s family held onto lots of things. Sifting through these things brings a wide range of emotions to the surface....
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Episode 98: You Are Not Alone
In this episode, host Eileen Campbell-Reed discusses the reality of grief in all our lives. We know that grief, loss, trauma, and brokenness are inevitable. The question is, what do we do? How do we cope? Eileen shares excerpts from Callie Swanlund’s book, From Weary to Wholehearted, reminding us...
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Episode 95: Writing With Support
How can a writing community support the creative work of developing a book? How can we approach writing in a sustainable and wholehearted way? Rev. Callie Swanlund talks with Eileen Campbell-Reed about how writing in community worked for her, and some key practices she used in writing her most...
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Episode 94: Wholehearted Ministry
What does it mean to live into ministry in a sustainable and wholehearted way? Here are two big keys needed for unlocking ministry that is sustainable. Rev. Callie Swanlund. talks with Eileen Campbell-Reed about what burnout can look like and what it means to live into a sustainable and...
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Episode 93: Legacies of Love
Remembering her ordination is necessarily tied up with stories, Eileen Campbell-Reed tells us. It means tending to the legacies of love that nurtured a calling, and being intentional about the ways we might carry out that legacy in these impossible times. Have a listen to this story of…
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Episode 92: Advocating for Women
Imagine advocating for a place where women and lgbtiqa+ people preach and lead most Sundays. A place where seminary students seek to learn from wise pastors. Where every age person from youngest to eldest has a place and a role in the ministry, education, and worship of the congregation. Eileen...
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Episode 91: Ask The Children
Whatever ministry we are considering, it is profoundly important that we ask the children. After we ask them, we must listen. Eileen Campbell-Reed discusses her recent experience in a cohort to prioritize the well-being of children. The Children’s Defense Fund shaped this thriving congregations...
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Episode 90: Called to Ministry
You who are called by God. We know you have heard it. Someone saying surely you misheard. That you don’t know what you are doing. You see the problems in the Church and the world, and you are ready with thoughtful and creative ways forward. They may say you are too young. Too old. Too busy…
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Episode 89: Honoring Vocational Grief
"You're feeling vocational grief." 3MMM Host Eileen Campbell-Reed shares this realization, and what it meant for her. In this episode, an excerpt from our All Saints Day Virtual Service, we invite you to take time to honor your loss and grief. You may want to gather up a piece of paper and a…
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Episode 88: How Women Thrive In Ministry, Part 2
How do women thrive in ministry? Eileen Campbell-Reed explores this question by imagining a future where women in ministry are thriving - 5 "future stories" that look like this: Women thrive in ministry because churches pay equitably Women thrive in ministry because leadership is collaborative....
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Episode 87: Baptized and Ordained
Episode 87: Baptized and Ordained Eileen Campbell-Reed tells about how women and queer clergy are changing ministry for good. Baptized and Ordained is a year-long community, advance reading and feedback group, opportunity for live events. Sign up and find out more: https://BaptizedAndOrdained.org...
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Episode 86: How Women Thrive in Ministry
3MMM | Podcast #86: How Women Thrive in Ministry Three Minute Ministry Mentor (3MMM) host Eileen Campbell-Reed is answering the question, how do women thrive in ministry? She shares 5 ways to imagine future stories in which women are thriving. This conversation opens up more about Eileen's latest...
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Episode 85: How to Start Meditating
Have you ever simply run out of words? 3MMM Host Eileen Campbell-Reed tells us about how she did. And how she "learned to pray in God’s language" of silence. Perhaps you would like to give it a try? How to Start Meditating - a simple, step-by-step guide to a practice of silence and prayer. More:...
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Episode 84: A Mother’s Day Prayer
In this episode, we offer a Mother’s Day prayer. Yet, it is not like the ones Eileen Campbell-Reed grew up hearing. This prayer is more of a psalm and a lament. It lifts up to God the painful and unspeakable facets of mothering and #mothersday. It also honors the gifts and graces of mothering.…
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Episode 83: Finding Our Way
Episode 83: Finding Our Way Has anything changed over the past three years in your ministry? If your answer is yes - check out this new resource. Our goal in studying and seeking to understand the lives and practices of Christian ministers over the last 20+ years is to make this work more...
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Episode 82: Talking Through Tragedy
Episode 82: Talking Through Tragedy How do we talk children through tragedy? What about parents and teachers, especially when the tragedy has impacted children and the places where children go, like schools or churches? And what about caring for congregations as a whole? Last week in Nashville…
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Episode 81: Beauty of Motherhood, Full Conversation
Episode 81: Beauty of Motherhood There is beauty in parenting. Not because the work is all glamorous or easy, but because God’s presence and grace is woven through it, even when it is messy and fraught and full of pain and tears and uncertainty. In this FULL CONVERSATION with Erin Strybis…
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Episode 80: Parenting as a Practice
This week we are talking once again with Kim Knowle-Zeller and Erin Strybis about their new book, The Beauty of Motherhood. 3MMM Host Eileen Campbell-Reed tells us: There is beauty in parenting experiences. Not because the work is all glamorous or easy, but because God’s presence and grace is…
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Episode 79: Graceful Parenting
Graceful parenting. That’s not a description but rather an aspiration and a need. Authors Erin Strybis and Kim Knowle-Zeller talk with Erin Robinson Hall and Eileen Campbell-Reed about their new book. The Beauty of Motherhood: Grace-filled Devotions for the Early Years, written especially for...
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Episode 78: Mental Wellbeing
We are talking about the mental wellbeing of our children and teens. These years of forming identity, re-modeling the brain, and flying further from the nest are already a big challenge. Add three calendar years of isolation, disrupted schedules and rites of passage, missed friendships and...
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Episode 77: Leading in Loss
Leading in loss is one of the great challenges of this moment. Why? The losses are monumental. The leaders are overwhelmed. And grief is rarely easy. Our guest Dr. Joyce Ann Mercer shares wisdom for attending to loss and grief for pastors, priests, chaplains and ministers. No matter your role, if...
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Episode 76: Self Compassion
Self compassion. Who needs it? Well, all the humans. It is hard, however, to love others when we struggle to love ourselves. This can be reality for many people. Sometimes it is just a season. For others it is an enduring struggle. Have a listen to this conversation with Eileen Campbell-Reed and...
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Episode 75: Integrating Loss
We continue our conversation with Dr. Joyce Ann Mercer of Yale Divinity School about loss and grief. How do we integrate our losses into life? What helps you to live well with your losses and griefs? Learn more about integrating loss and grief, here. Download a copy of the #PandemicPastoring...
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Episode 74: Ambiguous Loss
How is grief, “another way of loving?” Eileen Campbell-Reed welcomes Rev. Dr. Joyce Ann Mercer to talk about about ambiguous grief. Rituals and habits in every area of life, from parenting and teaching to being in community and leading the people of faith, have been disrupted and undermined. Now…
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Episode 73: Questions for Discernment
How can we shape our discernment practices? Consider how to discern renewal of purpose and vocation in your life with these questions. Have a listen to this conversation from our recent “Tending the Fires” virtual event with Rev. Dr. Kadia Edwards and Rev. Dr. Duane Bidwell. More on these...
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Episode 72: Vocational Discernment
Our lives, our churches, and ministry itself have changed. And more changes keep coming from the ripple effects of the pandemic. These realities open up questions about vocation and purpose of work and life. We recently offered a live zoom event for ministers, chaplains, professors, and lay…
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Episode 71:Ten Important Things
How will we honor what we have done before we look forward? Honoring the ways we spend our energy and love is a counter to false dreams of consumer culture. During the recent “Tending the Fires” virtual event, Eileen Campbell-Reed talked with fellow pastoral theologian, Rev. Dr. Duane Bidwell. He...
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3MMM | Episode 70: Embodied and Relational Reading
What are you reading this week, and have you considered how to read with your fully embodied and relational self? Whatever is happening in the world, we still read. We read for news and information. Reading inspires and moves us to action. We read so that we can prepare to preach and teach and...
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3MMM | Episode 69: Lenten Practices
Join the conversation as 3MMM's host Eileen Campbell-Reed interviews author, minister, and mother Traci Smith. What started out as a way to teach and nurture her own children’s faith in honest, messy and every day ways, turned into the Faithful Families book series. If you have children, minister...
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3MMM | Episode 68: Permission to Read
Now is a good time to remind everyone that you have permission to read a book. Any book, in fact! We are reminding you to give yourself permission to read. It might seem like a small thing in the moment, yet it prepares us with both spiritual support and also important information to do the big...
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3MMM | Episode 67: Fearing Bravely
How do we fear bravely? How do love and courage and fear dwell together? Author, Catherine McNiel joins us to share about her new book Fearing Bravely: Risking Love for Our Neighbors, Strangers, and Enemies. Join her conversation with 3MMM host, Eilieen Campbell-Reed as they share about what it...
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3MMM | Episode 66: Permission to Grieve
There is so much to grieve these days. The list seems nearly endless. Yet grieving remains hard work, and it is easy to ignore or leave aside. We invite you to join 3MMM host Eileen Campbell-Reed as she offers you a way to give yourself permission. A pathway to practice spiritual attention to the...
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3MMM | Episode 65: Permission to Laugh
This week Erin Robinson Hall shares from her experience, giving us all permission to laugh. In these oh-so-challenging days we sometimes need to give ourselves and each other a permission slip. If we can do the small things — evening things like laughing — then we renew our energy for the big...
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3MMM | Episode 64 - Podcasts and Permission
Join our conversation with Elizabeth-Anne Nordgren Lovell, a recent seminary graduate, college professor, and lover of podcasts. In this episode we talk all things podcasts, pandemic, and permission slips. In our conversation I ask Elizabeth-Anne how the pandemic has impacted her life and her...
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Episode 63: Advent Part 2
In Part 2 of this Advent series, Eileen Campbell-Reed shares more Advent stories, prayers, and poetry. With each one, a wish for some of the hope, peace, joy, and love that marks our circle through the Advent season. May you find health, safety, and space for your grief. Because this year, and…
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3MMM | Episode 62: Advent Part 1
This Advent, Eileen Campbell-Reed shares some Advent stories, prayers, and poetry. With each one, a wish for some of the hope, peace, joy, and love that marks our circle through the Advent season. May you find health, safety, and space for your grief. Because this year, and this last 21 months…
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3MMM Episode 61: No-Win Situations
Challenge. Question. Conflict. Change. How do you practice ministry in a no-win situation? Eileen Campbell-Reed has noted some themes - financial, staffing and volunteer challenges. Vocational uncertainty and the need for fresh discernment. Conflicts. Hope and resilience. Big transition. And…
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Episode 60: Helping Pastors Thrive
Collaboration. Listening. Getting around life’s brick walls. Understanding identity. Adapting to new places and situations. Each of these moments are part of the everyday work of ministry. Recently, Eileen Campbell-Reed sat down with three new pastors to talk about pastoral imagination. It was a...
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Episode 59: Called to Collaborate
Join our conversation with Rev. Alisha Smith Haddock. She is helping us see how multiple factors are impacting the community of North Nashville. Back in March, Nashville was hit hard by tornados that ripped through Middle Tennessee and destroyed and damaged, houses, churches, businesses and...
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3MMM Episode 58: Grief Rituals
Join us for a conversation about grief rituals. Author Lee Kravitz shares about his exploration, experience, and writing about death and grief. Lee is a journalist and a former editor-in-chief at Parade Magazine. And he is also author of the memoirs, Unfinished Business: One Man’s Extraordinary...
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3MMM Episode 57: Caring for Grief
Rev. Dr. Beverly Wallace has spent her life caring for grief. Many threads of personal experience, research, teaching, and pastoring are woven into her vocation of caring for grief. In this episode, she highlights those threads and how they have shaped her vocation. Caring for Grief in a Pandemic...
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3MMM Episode 56: Community Grief
“So much of Zen practice is about warm hand to warm hand transmission.” Ian Case, Director of the Brooklyn Zen Center, joins #3MMM Host Eileen Campbell-Reed in this episode of our series on pandemic grief. With the “stripping away of ritual and form” members of the Zen Center now meet for Dharma...
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3MMM Episode 54: Listening in Community
Listening matters. It matters for pastoral practice as well as personal relationships and every part of our lives. Listening is intimately connected to paying attention to life with all of our senses. Rev. Dr. Mary Clark Moschella, the Roger J. Squire Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at...
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3MMM Episode 53: BONUS! More on Spacious Conversations
"What’s really at stake here? How will this change people’s lives?" - Danielle Tumminio Hanson 3MMM Episode 53: Bonus content! Hear more about: + how to make space for tender conversation in diverse learning spaces + what we can learn from remorse + how embodied, relational learning can look in...
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Three Minute Ministry Mentor (3MMM) offers weekly resources for learning and deepening your practice of ministry. Our weekly episodes strive both to inform and inspire your learning for the sake of ministry. Each week we also invite you to take time to notice, appreciate and wonder how you are growing and changing as a ministry leader.
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