Craig Brian Larson discusses the pitfalls of ministry with unusual honesty in Pastoral Grit: The Strength to Stand and Stay (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1998). “My eyes were opened to what had happened to me, or rather, to what...
Read MoreThe Episcopal Book of Common Prayer confesses sin first in terms of having “left undone those things which we ought to have done,” and then in terms of having “done those things which we ought not to have done” (Daily Morning...
Read MoreThe ideal of the church is to be a place of mutual support and love. Some days the church succeeds and some days the church fails in living up to its ideal. We can all tell sad stories of days when the church failed, but let me...
Read MoreChurches are supposed to be places of friendship. The Apostle Paul wrote that God changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also (2 Corinthians 5:18 GNB). And yet the church is...
Read MoreA banker friend of mine was telling me of writing off bad loans at a rate of $10 to $15 million per month. That is easy to understand where I live. The shopping center on the corner near my house sold for $16 million five years...
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