Pastor, you don’t have a job

Pastors hate being told that don’t have a real job—the old joke being that you only have to work one day a week. The thing is, it’s more true than you think. I’ve been an elder in a couple of churches for around ten years now. Which makes me pretty green in the pastoral stakes,… Continue reading Pastor, you don’t have a job

Efficiency in Churches

Neil Postman argued that our metaphors demonstrate our thought patterns. I’ve argued that our metaphors fence our thought patterns such that we can’t think outside of them. I suspect the relationship here flows in both directions rather than simply downstream, but metaphor and thought connect in important ways. When we use machine language to describe… Continue reading Efficiency in Churches