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The Most Important Action for Pro-Life Christians: Foster and Adopt
When my wife and I decided to have a child in 2011, we decided to foster parent as a response to a calling. There are more … ahem … “natural” ways to have children and we certainly considered that...
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Palestinians are People: A Missionary’s Observations
As of today, 197 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1,500 have been injured in Israel’s constant bombing of Gaza over the last 10 days. Though Palestinians have fired lots of rockets and...
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What Am I Called to Do? (Part 9): Minister from Your Experience
Have you ever wondered how God was going to use some horrible experience that you’ve had in your life? Maybe you knew that some unique aspect of your life was significant for your life calling, but...
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How to Pastor When You Have to Report Child Abuse
I’m glad to have this guest post from Dr. Ryan Darrow, a pastor with a professional counseling ministry. With a look of panic Eve yelled at me, “You did WHAT?” This statement, along with a Lil Wayne...
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You Still Can’t Bomb a School: Just War and Israel-Palestine
It’s with great caution that I approach the complex realities in Israel-Palestine. The bloodshed started long before I was paying attention (or alive) and I still haven’t caught up to all the twists...
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When Blogging Becomes Sinful
Maybe I am becoming the negative and divisive person that I so dislike as representative of Christianity. It seems like there is an occasion every couple months that Mark Driscoll infuriates me to an...
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How I Became an Advocate for Women in Ministry
I didn’t grow up in a church community. So when I became a Christian at 18 years old, I had no idea that some people thought women shouldn’t be in church leadership. It wasn’t that I hadn’t noticed...
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Pastor, You Have to Mentor Women, too
“You have to avoid even the appearance of evil.” “Make sure that there are some strong women that can mentor the girls in the youth group.” “One mistake in this arena can cost you your whole career.”...
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From Private Ownership to Christian Stewardship
When I write in critique of the seemingly perpetual need to accumulate that dominates the Western mentality, I am still surprised how many God-loving and faithful Christians are convinced that this is...
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How to Get a Youth Ministry Raise
Youth ministry is a notoriously low salary field with many youth pastors and youth directors making far less money than other similar professionals. This hurts individual churches, youth ministers, and...
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“Don’t Hold on to Me”: Finding Gratitude in a Time of Transition
This sermon was from the last service of McCleary Chapel last year. As students prepared to transition out of university life, feelings ranged from joy and hope for the future to grief for the friends...
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#HeForShe is also for Him
The United Nations has just launched a well articulated solidarity movement calling men to stand for gender quality alongside the women of the world. The following speech by Emma Watson, of Harry...
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Are You Being Colonized by Liberalism?
Bill Maher and Ben Affleck got into a heated exchange this weekend that is actually really helpful for understanding a key issue that is important to religious persons: To what extent can liberalism...
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One Young Woman’s Efforts to Help Trafficking Victims
One of the greatest joys of pastoral ministry is seeing the amazing ways that people respond to God’s move in their lives. We have a committed group of students working to raise awareness about human...
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Why We Need to Wait for Christmas
A few weeks ago, in the middle of October, my five-year-old son and I walked into a store together. He pointed and called my name with a disgust that kiddos usually reserve for carrots and squash....
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Disney Princesses: A Little Girl’s Icons
You’ve probably seen the above images floating around the internet the last week or so under the title “Disney Princesses with Realistic Waistlines Look Utterly Fabulous.” Basically, it’s a collection...
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Women Pastors and Male Privilege
Until recently I was able to say that I had never had a single person mention the way that I was dressed in 14 years of church leadership. Recently, one of the older men has teased me a couple times...
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How Do You Respond to Inappropriate Comments?
I think every pastor sometimes has to deal with terribly inappropriate comments. Sometimes people will blame the pastor for something stupid that a high profile Christian has said or done. God only...
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Top 5 Posts of 2014
A crazy viral post on racism. Some good news for women in ministry. Some talk on an unmentionable among youth ministers. In my first full year of blogging, I was thrilled to have some popular posts....
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Best Responses to Inappropriate Comments
I think every pastor sometimes has to deal with terribly inappropriate comments. Sometimes people will blame the pastor for something stupid that a high profile Christian has said or done. God only...
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