Negative Capability: A Pastoral Virtue What does the poet John Keats have to teach the pastors of the church? John Bauerschmidt expands on a suggestion of Eugene Peterson, and suggests how we need to maximize our “negative capability.”
Why I Wear Black By Zachary Guiliano I always knew I’d wear black. My first inkling came when I was 18 and an intern at a Pentecostal church. I attended a short course on recovery ministries, and a local Salvation Army preac... Read More...
Augustinian Thoughts on the Bible and Humility By Joey Royal Augustine of Hippo, teacher of rhetoric, admirer of Cicero, initially found the Bible crude and unsophisticated. He found both the form and the content of the Bible to be a stumbling block, and initially refused to believe something so unrefin... Read More...
The Unselfish Pastor A pastor is called according to the ministry of Jesus himself, who gave up his life for the world.
The Pastor and Sober Humility A rediscovery of humility is in order, if pastors are to maintain the mental, emotional, and spiritual health that allows them to continue faithfully in the ministry.
Virtue and the Women of Old Hollywood To introduce my daughter to the seven classic virtues, I will enlist the help of classic guides: Ingrid Bergman, Myrna Loy, Katherine Hepburn, and Jean Arthur, among others.
Humble Evangelism in a Religiously Plural World How should we, as Christians, think about and respond to other religions?
None Righteous, No Not One To admit disaster to our Father in heaven: this is the found coin, the recovered sheep.
