Grounded in Faith, Formed in Community
It’s a genre now: the article or blog post about how seminary fails to teach the practical things pastors need to know. “Five Things They Didn’t Teach in Seminary.” The piece usually mentions monthly finance reports and broken air conditioners. I’m sympathetic. For five years I co-pastored an urban church with my wife. Each month,…
Last week the National Football League handed down a four game suspension for Tom Brady of the New England Patriots for his part in deflating footballs before a playoff game this past year. The team was also penalized $1 million and 2 future draft picks. If you turned on ESPN recently you saw all kinds of debates in…
I didn’t notice any trouble until he called the police–I was too distracted by the sunlight. Our kitchen windows are six feet tall, and on sunny afternoons like this one, the yellow walls gleamed, the dirty dishes on the counter shone. Thump, thud. It was still early spring, and the windows were closed, muffling the…