Often, it’s hard to trace back how I’ve made my way through the internet to a specific blog post. Unlike Hansel and Gretel, I’m not prone to leaving a trail of bread crumbs behind me. (Okay, so that was a really bad metaphor. Fill in the previous sentence with one that makes more sense to [...]
This past weekend, I spend a lot of my time finishing Eugene Peterson’s book Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work. Peterson is one of the finest writers on pastoral theology around today. This book, written in 1980, uses patterns from the books of Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther to inform pastoral practices [...]
