How A Gathering Commenced It took place two years ago this December. Dixie and I and a few others were having dinner in a restaurant, prior to attending a Christmas concert at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall. The conversation turned toward ‘church.’ All present, with a single exception, participated in the same church. All were active [...]
...and the Importance of Keeping them Together Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Jung, son of a poor rural pastor in the Swiss Reformed Church, is credited with popularizing the phrase “the two halves of life” when describing the transitional swing that happens for most people, usually between 45 and 55 years of age. Those [...]
By Ward Tanneberg One greeting I’ve never heard. By definition, an orphan is a child whose parents are dead. A family is a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household, related to one another by blood or marriage, treated with a special loyalty or intimacy. An orphanage is a residential institution for the care and education of [...]
A Message for Pastors Wes Wick You’d like to prod them with a swift kick to the posterior, but you can’t afford to lose them. What do you do with change-sensitive older adults in your church who are paying your salary and keeping the lights on? You may have read Who Stole My [...]