3 Minute Ministry Mentor

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 lives, Eileen notes the difficulty leaders face in planning worship week in and week out in local congreg...

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 shares his experiences of listening, learning, and holding space for the voices of the marginalized and oppr...

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 recent production of his first play, Cláudio is constantly using his creativity to teach and inspire....

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 is from Brazil, and he drew on his childhood stories, music, and relationships as this new form of per...

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 reflections, and learning from both mistakes and successes. Eileen’s book, Pastoral Imagination, is helpful for...

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 grief work is the work of ministry, and we are called to engage this work with ourselves and the people we...

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. We might ask what do these feelings and digging through history teach us about the practice of ministr...

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 that we are not alone. Thank you for listening! You are invited to subscribe to weekly episodes of Thr...

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 recent book.  Swanlund's new book is called From Weary to Wholehearted: A Restorative Resource for Overco...

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 wholehearted ministry. Swanlund's new book is called From Weary to Wholehearted: A Restorative Resource for Over...

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 ordination, and consider what following a calling means. This story of celebration and remembrance is also a day...

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 Campbell-Reed offers 10 questions to inspire our #pastoralimagination to advocating for women. Have a lo...

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 cohort to recalibrate our ministries by listening to young people. Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, president an...

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 raising children. Or too single. Too ambitious. Driven. Too distracted. Too much. They miss out on seeing you...

"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 marker or pen. As you listen, let yourself pay attention to your own spiritual well-being by giving a litt...

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.  Women  thrive  in  ministry  when  men  focus  on  care  for  themselves  and  all  peo...

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     Questions answered in the video:  0:20 A new book & community 1:45 How women and queer clergy...

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 book: "Baptized and Ordained" (working title).  This book will explore how women clergy and queer c...

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: 3MMM Episode 199: Pray, Read, Write How will you notice the quality of silence in your life? What is...

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. God in her wisdom sees and hears it all. There is no truth we cannot pray.   + For the full text of this...

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 understandable. To support the people called to it. And, after the last three incredibly stressful and unpr...

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, we experienced what is reaching epidemic proportions in the form of another school shooting. This episo...

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, Kimberly Knowle-Zeller, Erin Robinson Hall and Eileen Campbell-Reed , find out what these mothers claim about...

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 woven through it, even when it is messy and fraught and full of pain and tears and uncertainty.  Download...

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 progressive Christian parents. We want share the first part of our conversation. Erin Strybis says when...