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When someone considers his work “Christian,” all sorts of disturbing images come to mind: You may remember the 2004 incident with an American Airlines pilot who, in his pre-flight announcements, asked all Christians on the plane to raise their hands and then suggested that during the flight other passengers would talk to these people about […]

You can start reading this article with the idea that I will suggest how many weeks of vacation your church should give you, or what holiday period you should defend for your pastor; rather, I intend to answer that question a little differently. not how long a shepherd should have, but how he uses (or

I recently received an email with an interesting question. It came from an influential seminary teacher and a background occurred to me, but the entire email could be boiled down to this question about defining a calling: “Should I leave the seminary for pastoral ministry?” In an attempt to help him, I offered four questions