The Pivoting Pastor

Stretch was blessed with a bunch of family in town so Kenny & Stu went for it with: mostly unrestricted covid updates, controversial freedom posts, an article on digital vs. in-person church, identity tension between "I" and "Us" in being the church as Christians, Fuzz Kitto's (Aussie) perspective on consulting churches in conflict, church best at being local, pivoting away from institutions, and Michael Frost's podcast "In The Shift." That's enough for one week right??? We might let this one ride for a bit...whew. #pivotingpastor #InTheShift Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ YouTube BONUS Content: https://youtu.be/jhqc4GPBDTY --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

This episode features my friend Sonya Brown who is a fellow pastor and current seminary student. She is from the Navajo people and shares her unique perspective on calling, ministry, culture, family, career, discerning the pivots of life, and all the tensions included. #pivotingpastor  Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ BONUS Content: https://youtu.be/xP_HMC67gJQ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Stu & Kenny rehash JM's comments and share their perspectives on the only expression of church being local. #pivotingpastor Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ BONUS Content: https://youtu.be/AdcszqNHGrU --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

"Jon Middendorf??? Who invited YOU!?!" Christ's influence on us through JM's influence is profound. We troll each other along a sporadic timeline "stretching" 15 days-15 yrs; "wading" into deep waters of hurt and hilarity as we "stu" over being the church, living in the tension of kingdom come, and the heresy of "playing safe pastor". "Jon" us! (not a typo;) #pivotingpastor (PS-wish I could have posted it all! But the internet nor "institution" is ready...) Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ BONUS Content: https://youtu.be/2JJcBLwsT9k --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

(Originally was going to post this on https://anchor.fm/yamcast but rethunkified and just gonna leave this here…) Throwing SHADE with Jay G from the Philly District (or is he???)! A pivoting cornacopia of a conversational roller coast ride! Buckle-in. Strap-down. Arms and Legs inside the ride AT ALL TIMES (if you can even help yourself?!?) Jay drops some hot-takes on his conversion to faith in Christ, marriage, young adult AMA, being a pastor, what young adults are tired of, parenting, volunteer, vocational pivots, practical resources, scripture tats, and what's next for him and fam. #pivotingpastor Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ BONUS Content: https://youtu.be/ch9syuknzwM --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Kenny can't find his microphone cord. Stu & Lauren drive-thru Tim's. Stretch wraps up his "OK" speaking;) Also: Spartan schemes; Shep-herding; NonChildSafe; Schooling Silence; Para-script-phrased; Skype? #pivotingpastor Podcast

Stretch is speaking in OK. Stuart drops insightful ways to journey with those grieving. Kenny's new role as remote Young Adult Connection Pastor. #pivotingpastor  Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/   BONUS Content: https://youtu.be/WuYP-0JjJvk --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Another episode brimming with the bro-ship of Stu & Kenny covering the challenges of sourcing pastoral staff during a pandemic, death doulas, cow hugs, the unmasking of America, being catalysts of renovation, and other pivoty-type-topics. #piovtingpastor   Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/   BONUS Content: https://youtu.be/cHerMQHAPzU --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

This episode Kenny, Stretch, and Stuart expand on how John(Wesley), Jamar(Tisby), & Jesus(Christ) inspire heroic faith

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Stu's papers. Kenny's vocational verbal processing. Theological reflection spears thrown and finding their mark. #pivotingpastor  Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ BONUS Content: https://youtu.be/EXQ_JmM-ETY --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Stu & Kenny mix it up with lockdown updates, vocational possibilities, and pivots with Paul in celebrating the diversity of being church. #pivotingpastor Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ BONUS Content: https://youtu.be/xTaFC0aEtxU --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

What didn't we cover this episode? Exactly. Pets (Alt. BONUS Opener), ReLockDowns, undone laundry songs, riveting scripture insights, bad names for bible studies (Demons for Jesus!?!), stolen art, kingdom conspiracies, and wallpaper. Just listen. You'll get it. It'll make sense. Maybe... #pivotingpastor Stretch's song of the week: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lpt0SNnQhc Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor  YouTube Alternative BONUS opener: https://youtu.be/7_OeW8fO9iQ  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Did you hear the one about the Presbyterian who went into a Canadian bar with the Nazarenes? Well, you will today, my friends! Stu and Kenny see the kids off to school, discuss future topics, and laser in on what defines the role of a missionary. #pivotingpastor  Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor   YouTube BONUS content: https://youtu.be/0x0h08GWLIo   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Join us for some post-Easter weekend pivoting updates. Reflections on our passive ethical responsibilities. Self-described "sweet-spots" in ministry. Easter pilgrimages. And of course, the banter. #pivotingpastor  Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor YouTube BONUS content: https://youtu.be/rAM4j6xskBY Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Shade about doing life;) Discernment in the Desert. Challenges of being the "Us" church. Hard questions about God's plan. #pivotingpastor Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor YouTube BONUS content: https://youtu.be/TIFEA1AodLI Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Kenny & Stuart trade thoughts on the complexities of returning to in-person church from the perspective of pastors and parishioners. #pivotingpastor Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor   YouTube BONUS content: https://youtu.be/Gx7Fwy2IzqI Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Stuart & Kenny meander their way into a discussion about the narrative of scripture and polarization of the church in current geo-political climates. Also the advantages of ordering food with an app. #piovtingpastor Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor   YouTube BONUS content: https://youtu.be/Z-tvChm7Dyc   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

This week with your pivoting pastors: Random Thought Balloons. Critter encounters. Pondering Vaccination. Post-high GAP adventure advice.  Podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor YouTube BONUS content: https://youtu.be/UGxUJ3gl_qYInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/   #pivotingpastor #pastoraladvice #covid19updates #balloons #boise #calgary #Boston #gapyear  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Stu and Kenny get in-depth on Lent and (unrelated) clarifying when the message of Christ first came to Africa. As it turns out..Christianity pre-dates the "white-man's religion of colonization" on the continent. #pivotingpastor   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

We talked about SO MANY things this episode, WHY NOT entitle this episode about some random and obscure topic that we covered? ha. Look. We do this for us. If you benefit from it: BONUS! Kenny "over-shares" on surgery recovery pivots. As it turns out Stretch is a day-trading TYCOON!?! #dodgecoin #GME But we really have NO IDEA what his REAL name is (Challenge accepted;). If you really want to get to the substance of this episode with three pastor friends sharing life together on the weekly then simply skip ahead to minute 26. This is where Stuart shares a little about Black History in Canada. #pivotingpastor  YouTube: https://youtu.be/RqU6XGCpcX0 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

This episode has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. Kenny had bone-spur surgery and was on drugs (LITERAL pivots being made daily on crutches). Stretch takes his parents to Fenway for Covid vaccination. Stuart smashes the disconnect between evangelism and social justice. PS - I wasn't allowed to publish until I was off the drugs;) Proceed... Bonus ending here: https://youtu.be/p44RGpedJ1c Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

SO good to have the THREE of us back together. We caught up on the stuff of our pivoting pastoral lives. Then Stu dropped some major insights from his doctoral reading. If it sounds like we are having fun? We do. While getting into the real issues of today.

Well, we took a month off but we are BACK in the NEW YEAR!!! Wasn't there enough going on anyway? (The cover of Kenny's new journal says it all, right?⛵️) Kenny & Stu catch-up, miss Stretch, share pivots, and plot for future exploits

Pastor bros Stu, Stretch, & Kenny riff on vacation done right/wrong, if balance is really a thing?, and churching during covid conditions.  Cameo by Stretches wife, Jill (Along with stunt driving, body guarding, and "brains" of their operation. DUH;) #pivotingpastor   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Special guest "Stretch Dean" (inside joke there;) streams from FLO-rida.  Stuart begins a 3 week stay-cation.  Kdubs goes "MANDO" UPSer. YouTube: https://youtu.be/HTWrWTIuZxA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ #pivotingpastor --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Brenton & Melissa Peters live and work in New York City. They parent, pastor, and pivot on the daily in their professional fields of medicine and education. They are friends, colleagues, and co-missioners in Christ. Enjoy.  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/HTWrWTIuZxA --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Just listen. It'll make sense. Maybe? haha. Missed Stretch again; his absence shouts. Happy Thanksgiving (USA;) Proceed... #pivotingpastor --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Covid Parenting / UPS v. FedEx / Stu pep-talks Kenny working through pivot #pivotingpastor #UPSers #missingstretch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/ms4TBiAKYeA --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Kenny & Stu conversify about... Used car buying strategies;  Seasonal UPS driving gigs; Personal COVID shifts;  Numbers on how fear-based "going back" is not a kingdom politic. #pivotingpastor YouTube: https://youtu.be/8O19je1RYPw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Stu & Kenny talk in-and-out of indigenous art, BIPOC, Imago Dei, leveraging our privilege, and everyday pivoty-type-pastory topics.  Which is basically anything... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_pivoting_pastor_podcast/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/1b9wvlEEEHg  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Jeff lives in Richmond, VA and works full time for Allianz (travel insurance) while pastoring. Some of you know that life all too well and will be training the rest of us how to navigate life that way as pastors! Enjoy this BONUS episode of the #pivotingpastor --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Whatever happened to innovation in the church? Or Innovative pastors and leadership? Is it happening? Are they among us? Catch-up with Stretch, Stuart, and Kenny as they share a little life, laughs, and leadership pivots in their lives including their imaginative hopes for the church. For more from TPP crew with "Take-out" clips GO here: https://youtu.be/CoTy_Qp9WaM --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

On the backend of this episode Stu & Kenny explore what "skating toward where the puck will be" of pastoral leadership and church ministry may look like in the not-so-distant-future.  The meandering convo to get there includes seemingly unrelated, yet relevant, updates on "lunch-lady-land" tactical foot-wear, +40 year old workout updates, Uncle-Rico-esque nostalgia for our formative seasons with BIG PICTURE TRAINING, and how those edgy days of COMMUNITAS still spice up our everyday missioning into the coming kingdom of God.  What will be the future priorities for the local pastor pivoting with their church?  And...AND! Is the title of this episode actually based on a "Wayne" Gretzky quote??? #pivotingpastor #bigpicturetraining #communitas #lunchladyland #hockey  -- PS-Sketchers, Planet-Fitness, and other brands are not currently sponsors...BUT THEY COULD BE;)  Instagram: the_pivoting_pastor_podcast /  For some video bonus footage of the podcast check-out YouTube channel:  Kdubbley Convo / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrB347xXPEXgVniPTZdnfnA --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Stretch texted us on the front end and let us know his car died so we voicemail trolled him. Stu and I managed to battle on "somehow" covering topics ranging from the manliness of DIY, the distinction between partisanship and kingdoms politics, and the struggle for Sabbath practices in our lives. All the while Kenny folded laundry, cast his US national "mail-in" ballot, and Stu monitored the repair guy as his church. Good times.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

This bonus episode is a deeper conversational dive into definitions of what we mean by the term "pivoting"   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

What would it look like if you were living the dream as a pivoting pastor? Have you ever had a zoom call while getting your hair cut? Where is your sweet spot in ministry life? We discuss all this and more in this episode all to the sweet, sweet sounds of Stretch getting his $4 "hairs cut" while in the barber's college chair. We endured through the conversation with his wonderfully masked, and muzzled mug, (but unmuted!) for the unnecessarily longest and meticulous one hour trim known to humanity for the shortest amount of hair reduction. Good luck. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

What does pivoting look like in the life of a pastor no longer at a church and navigating a daily schedule? Do you miss meetings? We also get into the importance of self-care as a pastor and what and how each of us are doing it. We will be coming back to the "Race, Relationship, and Reconciliation" ARC monthly. If you find some value, insight, encouragement, or a laugh with us then... Subscribe, share, review, and follow on Instagram: the_pivoting_pastor_podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Kenny, Stretch, and Stu continue the conversation, insights, and stories about personal and church needed racial reconciliation and how to take action moving forward... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

In this two part episode of The Pivoting Pastor Kenny, Stretch, and Stuart reflect on relationships and resources that are helping to inform and guide their personal responses to racial injustice. As pastors and leaders within the church we are convicted to not allow racial injustice and the NEED for reconciliation to fade to the background until the next black person is murdered. We are commitment to making sure we revisit our action toward racial reconciliation monthly after the next two episodes. But for now we start off discussing a riveting podcast by the Internal Justice Mission with guest Jmar Tisby as he reflects on "THE" Church's complicity in Racism: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-new-activist/id1144659009?i=1000488993315 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Stu & Kenny discuss the inequality of race, implicit bias, and pivots for pastors leading the church toward being catalysts of reconciliation. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Stuart & Kenny share a bonding story from South Africa and initial thoughts on overcoming racism. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support

Let's discuss the “in-between-places” of life, ministry, reconciliation, CAN-africans, temperature conversion, and other deeply meaningful banter among long-time bros in Christ having to do with being a pastor on the pivot. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-pivoting-pastor/support