I’m having a very enjoyable time. There are six others here. Two I have known for ten years or so, two I’ve had aquaintance with for nearly that long and two I’ve met here for pretty much the first time. One more friend has not been able to make it this week due to unforseen …
Okay, I have conservative Christian background. My idea of ‘men’s retreat’ was something like the Late Show’s Wild Man sketch. (Look it up on YouTube if you don’t own the DVD) Banging drums, dancing around a fire, unrepressing memories, group hugs, feeling the freedom to sing show tunes and watch chick flicks, that sort of …
In the midst of a trend toward self-care and avoiding burn-out, Mikey Lynch puts in a word for the notion that pastors have a relentlessly demanding calling and will never be able to get away from the reality that they’ll need to suck it up and get on with it. He makes a lot of …
Christianity Today features an article about the growth of online seminary education: ‘The iSeminary Cometh’. Here’s a one page link. Scott Clark provides a vigorous reply about the value of campus based training: ‘And Now for the Rest of the Story’. Clark also has an essay which carries the same theme in a more nuanced …
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