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Those Magnificent Young Men and Their Pastoring Machines
Our wayback machine today takes us to the first year of Internet Monk.com, where you ¢â‚¬â„¢ll find a lengthy essay called ¢â‚¬Å“Those Magnificent Young Men and Their Pastoring Machines. ¢â‚¬ (Excuse the spelling errors. No proofreading in the old days.) It ¢â‚¬â„¢s my original rant about what was happening to the practice of the pastorate at the time. I […]
WHAT DO PASTORS ACTUALLY DO?
Book Review: This Odd and Wondrous Calling By Chaplain Mike (http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/im-book-review-this-odd-and-wondrous-calling) I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve been waiting for this book a long, long time. Finally, here is a book that paints a clear picture of what pastors actually do, what serving as a minister in a congregational setting is actually like, and what we actuallythink and feel about our calling and […]
Churches Going Broke…
*Sightings* 1/31/2011 *Church Mortgages and Foreclosures* — Martin E. Marty ¢â‚¬Å“Churches Find End Is Nigh ¢â‚¬ is the kind of headline which should produce ennui. One expects to read under it of the 1900th annual prediction of the end of the world. But, read on: the subhead portends an article on ¢â‚¬Å“Ends ¢â‚¬ which are current and […]
Don’t Give Up on the Church Yet!
The Enduring Church Believers in every age worry about the collapse of the faith. Jennifer Powell McNutt | posted 1/25/2011 If I were to write about the burdens of the preacher as I have experienced them and as I know them,” declared Martin Luther, “I would scare everybody off.” A glance at 21st-century headlines about religion and […]
James Emery White: Christ Among the Dragons
James Emery White: Christ Among the Dragons: Finding Our Way Through Cultural Challenges (2010, IVP Books). From the dust jacket: ¢â‚¬ËœWhen medieval mapmakers came to the end of the world as they knew it, they would write on the edges of their maps, “Here Be Dragons.” Without a way to navigate, these areas were, at […]
A (Christmas) message from God to His children:
It has come to my attention that many of you are upset that folks are taking My name out of the season. Maybe you ¢â‚¬â„¢ve forgotten that I wasn ¢â‚¬â„¢t actually born during this time of the year and that it was some of you ¢â‚¬â„¢re predecessors who decided to celebrate My birthday on what was actually a […]
WHY DO PEOPLE LEAVE CHURCHES?
* WHY DO PEOPLE LEAVE CHURCHES ———————————————– by Dr Richard Hibbert. Dr Hibbert is Head of the Sydney Missionary Bible College's School of Cross-Cultural Mission. He is a medical doctor who has served as a missionary with WEC in the Middle East and Europe, working among Muslim people. He has a Doctor of Missiology from […]
CANADA: Young People Forsaking the Church
MICHAEL VALPY From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 9:00PM EST BY THE NUMBERS The state of religion in Canada today If the future for institutional religion in Canada lies in the hearts and minds of the young, a dark night is sweeping down on the country’s churches, synagogues and temples. Young Canadians, […]
Poems about Confession
Two nuns and my second confession BRIAN DOYLE NOVEMBER 30, 2010 Sister Anne Marie It was in second grade that I discovered I could not see. This thought had never occurred to me in all my years. When Sister Anne spun suddenly to write on the board, Her rosary big as a halter desperately trying to […]
CHURCH DROP-OUT RATE HAS INCREASED FIVEFOLD
Are We Becoming an Atheist Nation? 3 Reasons Young People Are Abandoning Religion November 28, 2010 Chances are that if you are in your 20s or 30s, you are not hanging around a church. Polling is now a highly sophisticated industry, and religious organizations are being fed some irrefutable numbers about what is happening among […]
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