Let’s have a conversation about pastoral burnout.  Who will speak up and offer wisdom for all of us? The findings have surfaced with ominous regularity over the last few years, and with little notice: Members of the clergy now suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans. In the last decade,…

Here is the first post in a series I’ve developed called “Miracles of Morphing.” It will last through next week. Three Morphing Miracles              The Story of Jesus, the gospel Peter preached, was the Story of Jesus’ life, his death, and his resurrection. That life became that death, and that death…

The Editors at CT affirm creation care in this editorial: The problem with the Gulf oil spill is not just that human lives were lost and that the Gulf economy is destroyed and that pelicans and turtles and other animal populations will be wiped out. All of that is bad enough. But worse is this:…

I’m going to have to be sensitive on this one: Steve Wilkens and Don Thorsen say their new book, Everything You Know about Evangelicals Is Wrong (Well, Almost Everything): An Insider’s Look at Myths and Realities say that not all evangelicals are Calvinists. I have to be sensitive here because bringing up Calvinism these days, with the resurgence…

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