Quality Pastoral Care: A Layperson’s Perspective
What does quality pastoral care look like? How many pastors, priests, and deacons receive training that adequately equips them to aid healing rather than add new wounds to the emotional and spiritual lives of people in their care? As a priest’s wife and an observer by nature, I could offer [...]
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Quality Pastoral Care: A Layperson’s Perspective
What does quality pastoral care look like? How many pastors, priests, and deacons receive training that adequately equips them to aid healing rather than add new wounds to the emotional [...]
A Good Story: Narrative as Theodicy
“If God, why evil?” When men first announced the death of God these four, short, stabbing, syllables were thought to be the nails in the Creator’s coffin. This riddle may [...]
The Story of Our Hymns: The Storm Is Passing Over
This is the fourth in a series on sacred hymns, the story behind them, their text, a recording, and a simple companion devotional. “When the world is tossing me, like [...]
Never Enough: The Beautiful Insufficiency of the Diaconate
Deacons cannot absolve, bless, or consecrate. These "ABCs" of the diaconate are often the first and most consistent way that people describe the order today, inadvertently defining the most foundational [...]
The COVID Crisis: A Terrible Thing to Waste
If your church is just riding out the pandemic, hoping that you can get back to normal, you are missing the opportunity of the century to reimagine the ministry of [...]
7 Leadership Essentials for Navigating a Strange New World
We live in a strange world where things like pandemics and protests seem to be the new norm. Since March 2020, the world has radically changed and will continue to [...]
J.I. Packer: A Remembrance
A letter arrived at our house just before Christmas. It was addressed to our then 4-year-old daughter, Anne Tyler; the envelope had two, silly stickers on the back. The letter [...]
Bridging the Divide: Anglicanism and the Supernatural
Since the beginning of the modern era, westerners have typically divided the world into two categories: natural and supernatural. The natural world is thought to contain everything that can be [...]
Best Bible Study Resources: The Pastoral Epistles
One of the great things about the Daily Office Lectionary is that it takes you through the majority of the Bible every year. If you’d like to learn a bit [...]
Best Bible Study Resources: Ezra and Nehemiah
One of the great things about the Daily Office Lectionary is that it takes you through the majority of the Bible every year. If you’d like to learn a bit [...]
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