This summer I had the opportunity to train pastors in Southeast Asia. These pastors had very little formal theological education, and they were eager learners. Some of them traveled hours through the countryside to spend a week together with other pastors discussing 1 Thessalonians. During and after my lectures, they poured forth questions about the […]
Let the faithful man seize a plow with oxen so that he may, nevertheless, look at God who gives greenness and fruit to the earth; and let him walk according to the commands of his master so that, cultivating earthly things, he does not desert heavenly things. ~ Hildegard of Bingen (LVM IV.76) John […]