It is no secret to anyone that today traditional Christian values about family and sexuality are strongly attacked and questioned, it is the proposal to deconstruct these values, generated mainly in the philosophical contexts of modernity, today felt daily in universities, in the media segments, in the contexts of opinion-formers, in organized movements , in […]
The Puritans were called “doctors of the soul. ” They received this nickname because Puritan ministers were experts in discerning different situations and experiences of the soul. Puritan pastoral care, set in a classical pastoral care, from the late sixteenth to the nineteenth century, recognized three contexts for the causes of “depressions”. These causes have
The numbers are amazing. Experts estimate that nearly 1,000 local churches close each year. What is even more devastating about this statistic is that this figure only reflects the churches of the Southern Baptist Convention in the United States, my name. Imagine how this number increases if we add the number of local churches to
