Article about the counter-productive goal of perfection on Mockingbird blog recounts how Philip Humber, a US baseball pitcher who pitched a perfect major league game (retired 27 batters in a row, three up and three down, every inning for nine innings. No walks, no hits) and yet found himself cut from his team’s roster at …
This link goes to an extended excerpt on creativity and Christians by Michael Gungor from his book The Crowd, the Critic and the Muse. It is well worth the read. In it Gungor explains the difficulties in being categorised as a Christian musician, a tag which says little about what sort of music it that …
A constant temptation in pastoral life is to strip-mine the Scriptures in search of that which the pastor thinks will bring needed challenge and change to their congregation while never digging into the Word consciously aware of the need for it to confront and transform the pastor himself. A worrying sign is when the consistent …
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