Jennifer Taylor has confessed her sin publicly: she’s bored at church. But unlike many people, she’s not interested in a more whizz-bang service with hipper music or preaching. “I’m not looking for a slicker sermon series or a faux-hawked worship leader or designer coffee in the back lobby.” And she’s not about to leave her church to find a different mountain to climb:

“I also believe you make a commitment to one local church and invest in community with those believers long-term, I’m not going to start shopping for a new church. Besides, all those churches would also have long sermons and rambling prayers and worship leaders in skinny jeans. That’s the problem.”

So what is she bored with? What is she looking for? Taylor…

Last week I shaved off my goatee. When I emerged with only eye brows and lashes growing from my otherwise perfectly bald head, my 2-year-old daughter Lucy approached me cautiously. “Daddy…is that you?” she asked.Change is disorientating, and when it comes unexpectedly it can be scary.

Facial hair isn’t the only change in my life, and I want to update everyone on new developments in my work and ministry. Scary? Maybe. Disorientating? Definitely. But I’m also looking forward to what’s around the corner.

At the end of August I will be leaving my role as the managing editor of Leadership Journal to pursue a more independent career. I’ve been in this post for almost 3 years and spent 3 years before that as Leadership‘s associate…