Our group of seven students and two leaders spent the better part of two weeks in Brazil. The first week was spent in Manaus, a city in the heart of the Amazon. We visited numerous churches and pastors and tried to soak up as much information as possible. These pastors are so passionate and…
Category: Protestant Spirituality
No More Monologues
The Art of Spiritual Conversation: We do ourselves a great disservice in the church when we do not teach the art of spiritual conversation. Talking about spiritual things cannot be something that is relegated to pastors. The language of Christianity cannot be something that is merely sung in worship songs and uttered in ancient liturgical…
“The Stirred” Word
In the beginning were “the stirred,” and “the stirred” were with God. Seminary chapel bells ring in a new school year, and “the stirred” file into their classes. As a first year seminary student, I have already learned a few essential lessons: First, hermeneutics is not that rash that Uncle Ned contracted in 1998….