Anne Jackson asked her readers about burnout yesterday.  She wanted us to offer what we’d like to hear at a conference breakout session on burnout.  Church work often leads to burnout, and Anne talks all about it in her book Mad Church Disease, coming out next February.
I responded with two related thoughts:
1. The gospel we [...]

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It’s been argued that the US invasion of Iraq was all about oil.  I can’t say for sure what our motivations were- and I’m not interested in arguing them now.  What we do know is that there is an oil crunch these days, and oil is the primary source of energy for our military and [...]

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What drives you? What will you do?
“John, by contrast, takes us up the mountain, and says quietly: ‘Look—from here, on a clear day, you can see for ever.’ We beheld his glory, glory as of the Father’s only Son. John does not describe the transfiguration, as the other Gospels do; in a sense, John’s [...]

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