The Year in a Word

Early Monday morning I will be leaving Langhorne for a week of study leave at the West Coast Presbyterian Pastors Conference.  I have been to this conference before.  Probably a previous twenty times.  The conference began as an annual event in the early 1970’s and was called the Young Presbyterian Pastors Conference. It’s always held eight days after Easter at the same conference center in the redwoods of coastal California not far from the north end of Monterey Bay. I began to attend in the late 70’s when I was a west coast Presbyterian youth director and have been attending more on than off ever since.  Over time the “young” was dropped from the name of the conference and the sense of relationship and accountability among the growing-older pastors grew. Continue Reading »