Maybe you’ve heard something like this before of another Christian, or even yourself: “Oh, him? He’s a good dude, but boy — he’s a grouch.” Or maybe, “He...
On Christian Curmudgeons
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On Pastoral Scandal…Again
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Here we are: another pastoral scandal, and this one is somehow even closer to home than the one I wrote about just a couple of months ago. Where the disgraced and disqualified pastor in my previous...
On Nakedness
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I recently read a post (article? transcript?) by a friend of mine, one with whom I’d have gobs more in common than not. He is a brother, a fine leader, and certainly a better man than I am in...
ON DROWNING IN CREDULITY
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In a recent light-hearted exchange with a stranger, presumably an atheist/agnostic, on Facebook, I was cautioned to not “drown in credulity” as a Christian. I assured him I had my...
On Pastoral Hardship
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Today I’m writing about pastoral hardships on my blog, or — more specifically — some pastors’ responses to them. Please allow me to make both my heart and my thesis remarkably...
On Privacy
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Yesterday, I sat with my wife at the kitchen table and shared with her my desire for a particular bird feeder that was a little out of my budget this month. Moments later, I opened Facebook to find...
On Pastoral Scandal
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If there’s anything that’s going to get everybody talking, it’s when a pastor publicly fails on a moral level. This isn’t entirely unexpected, to be sure. And sometimes folks...
On Growth
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Growth. I have, believe it or not, become somewhat wary of this word when I hear it. Why? Because it seems whenever someone’s just compromised their morals, shifted their sexual ethics, made a...
On Leaving
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I left. I moved my family across the country at what looks like the drop of a hat to most people. This changed my reality entirely. I was pastoring, and now I’m not. I lived in Maine, and now I...
On “Compromise” And “the old time religion”
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I recently read a Facebook post (yes, this is often what stokes the fires of a blog entry, I confess) by a pastor whose stance on many things I’d genuinely appreciate, but whose stance on some...
