5 Lessons from an Interfaith Journey to Israel
This past January I traveled to Israel with a group of 20 clergy. Our group included four rabbis, two imams, two Roman Catholics, and a diverse range of Protestant pastors.
Pray for those who upset you
My plea would not only be for understanding and real human sympathy but also for intercession. I cite Job as a model.
Honor for Lamy of Santa Fe
Bishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy faced conflict and put down stable roots, but died with unfinished visions.
John Calvin on Job: Sermons of a pastor
One of the refreshing parts of Calvin’s approach to Scripture is his existential realism — he has a thorough appreciation of the Pauline doctrine that all are sinners, and so he is not afraid to see the heroes of the Bible as alloyed with sin and weakness alongside their better qualities.
The past no paradise: Returning to The Innocent Curate
I plead for the renewed reading of The Innocent Curate, as a general portrait of an Episcopal Church in the heyday of its mid-20th-century revival.
Who is worship for?
“Seeker”-friendly church is hardly a new concept, but it is obviously becoming more pervasive, since it has spread even to the mainline churches.
Teaching pastoral theology with the Book of Job
How do we encourage people to put themselves into the place of Job, so they see that God is really the one to whom they may need to complain and from whom they need to hear?
Advice for the weary pastor: Seneca and the Stoics
A commonplace among clergy is that seminary hardly prepares the pastor for all the difficulties and trials found in the crucible of parish life, but a good seminary education at least furnishes an ability to identify the hardships as they come.