Category: Church Issues

Post-Christian We may have seen the article buried in the bottom of a newsfeed, or maybe we discovered it in the links provided by this or another website.  It was the result of a...

Pastoral Care As we emerge from the pandemic, I wonder if pastoral care will return.  Now, there seemed to be little enough traditional pastoral care pre-Covid and it seems possible that the crisis of...

1. I was reminded again this week that online “friends ” are not always really friends at all, but they can do real damage …beware of the person who seems to derive their personal...

1. The resurrection of Jesus was, (among other things), a vindication by God of the way that Christ took His kingdom and defeated death and the powers of darkness. He turned the other cheek...

1. I watched a Palm Sunday service this past weekend and found out that I’m probably not a Christian. This shocking revelation came from the pastor strongly inferring that those who did not rebel...

“People of the Book” I recently checked into volunteering, post-Covid, in a local literacy program.  If I follow through on this idea, it will mark my third time doing this kind of work since...

Hope is a Choice As I look back over the last forty plus years of life in the church, it seems to me that there has been a steady diminishment of hope as that...