Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon wrote Resident Aliens in 1989. Their analysis of both Christian and secular culture continues to be insightful and useful. If the situations appear to have changed in the thirty something years that have passed, it is only that they have increased and strengthened, not that courses have altered. Here they …

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Pastoral ministry is not a therapeutic activity, it is a means that “can help to create a people worthy to tell the [Gospel] story and to live it.” Hauerwas and Willimon write so well that every line is pleasure to read, and is so well constructed its hard to lift little grabs of text because …

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