Ashley Hibbard provides a guest-post at Dashhouse which ponders whether management skill and leadership have supplanted serving as the marker of pastoral leadership in the church. Avoiding polar extremes, the problem identified is whether the motivation to engage with others is for their benefit, or to be noticed. From the post: There are many unhealthy …

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If you’re in the market for an epitaph to put on your grave you could do worse that this one: “Died Tragically Rescuing His Family From the Wreckage of a Destroyed Sinking Battleship” And if you ever think you may have failed as a father, or your father failed you, watch The Royal Tenenbaums and …

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We had a situation the other day where we were faced with drinking wine but didn’t have wine glasses available. So the glasses were removed from the dishwasher and cleaned by hand. It just didn’t seem right otherwise. This article on Today I Found Out deals with the very question: Why Is Wine Almost Always …

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