Ministries of Reckless Faith, Resilient Hope, and Steadfast Love
Broadcast Samples
Yale ran a “Life and Personal Growth Series for which I talked about ‘Re-emergence and Re-invention in the (Almost) Post-Covid Era'“
"A year of pandemic living has been more about loss and added stress than opportunity for many of us," Messner said. "As a parish minister, people grant me a view on what navigating this time has meant. With that continuing dose of realism, I won’t be proposing some great silver lining to it all. I will be playing with the idea that as we crawl from our caves, ending involuntary hibernation, there may be some things that we can see and do differently in the light of the new day. My thesis is simple: We have resources we haven’t noticed and possibilities we haven’t taken seriously. Now might be our moment to get ready."
At my Savannah church, we started our own radio station (WRUU 107.5 FM), and I had a weekly show called “Pulpit Talk” in which I had interfaith conversations with other clergy on Sunday afternoons. This was a meaningful way to bring us into tighter relationship with the congregational communities around us.
Subsequently, I started a weekly web show called “Clergy Talk” and then “Fissionable Faith” in which a panel of four or five clergy from different traditions discuss life and questions people have brought to us (Participants so far have spanned Unitarian, Jewish (Reform), Jewish (Conservative), Methodist, Disciples, Episcopal, and Non-Denominational traditions).
