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“Most of your friendships are helping relationships,” my counselor declared one day. “You mean there’s another kind?” Friend-bullying and back-stabbing betrayal have been repeated themes since childhood, so I’m skittish around females. I learned to armor up, read the...
“Still, the man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.” —Simon and Garfunkel, The Boxer At this year’s General Assembly in Chattanooga, several members of the AMR board addressed the challenges facing the PCA in a seminar titled “Pursuing a Unified...
A few years ago, I attended a conference on Christian hospitality and was shocked by things that, in retrospect, shouldn’t have surprised me. Being a male, I was part of a tiny minority at the conference. The lectures were full of good advice—practical, theoretical,...
Before I became a pastor, I would not say I was estranged from a single soul. Almost 20 years in, the list is longer than I would have ever thought bearable. It includes some of my most intimate former friends and ministry partners: people whose names are etched on...