the waiting country

Philip Pullman was recently interviewed (for the 5-minute interview slot) by Matthew Stadlen. Asled if he was an agnostic or an atheist, he...

Maybe your ambition is to be described in somewhat more glowing terms than 'a competent minister'. But that's Paul's claim f...

See  this article  from the BBC. You can listen to the radio show here .

In concert with reflections on religious affections, Paul Helm has also written a couple of pieces on the topic of 'Christian Hedonism...

Then you might want to have a read of this...

Christianity Today has published the reflections of several prominent church leaders to the events of 9/11 and the decade that has followed...

A very interesting article over at HBR about a leader's role in a crisis. Worth pondering for anyone involved in serving the church, no...

Over at Koinonia , Bill Mounce asks the question, Who reigns in the millenial kingdom? Maybe not the kind of question you worry about too mu...

Over the summer holiday, I read John Stott's fine book The Preacher's Portrait . These were addresses given in 1961 at Fuller Theolo...

Need to make your to-do list actually doable? Maybe the good folks at Lifehacker can help you.

It's clearly a case of both/and but where should the emphasis lie/ Here's an interesting post by David Murray, himself a college du...

As I recall, I first read about this little book via Tim Keller, somewhere, somehow. All I can say is, 'Cor, thanks Tim!' It's a...

Here's a list of Paul's words to Timothy about his ministry - seems like a good place to start. 1 Timothy command certain people not...

HT: Justin Taylor

These words by Steven Covey (HT: Matt Perman ) are very challenging when applied to church culture: A low-trust culture is filled with burea...

It's a skill, and a deeply necessary one at that, in both pastoral and evangelistic ministry. Ron Ashkenas writes with business and ma...

This is a very perceptive piece by Thom S. Rainer. For example: Hubris often manifests itself in the idolatry of ministries, programs, or p...

Take Breaks  After  Starting the Next Part of a Task, Rather Than In Between When you take a break,  don’t  take your break at a natural ...

I guess for most ministers, books are constant companions. But how do you get to know about them? How do you discover what's out there, ...