Pastoral Theology

One of the benefits of being in Detroit is our proximity to Canada (you can get to Canada from our seminary in...

In my occasional role as an interim pastor, I’ve been tasked more than once with creating a questionnaire for potential pastoral candidates...

In the early 1800s the church in America faced a number of challenges. Intermittent revivals of religion in the previous decades had...

Should the chief role of a seminary be the training of scholars or pastors? In recent years there has been much said...

As the baby boomer generation continues to age, the percentage of Americans at retirement age is expected to explode, with about 9000...

In re-reading The Reformed Pastor by Richard Baxter recently, I was again encouraged to pray for and love those I help shepherd....

From time to time I’ve met professing Christians who for one reason or another claim that they do not need to be...

Last year we were jolted when the Supreme Court struck down one of the central pillars of the “Defense of Marriage Act,”...

The Bible states that we have an enemy that plagues everyone—death. Though we may avoid this enemy for a time, we cannot...

I’ve visited sub-Saharan Africa a few times and have started to get a handle on the grassroots economic theory that dominates the...