My Dear Shepherds,

Most of us have been wounded in our work. What hurts worst is when we’re struck by our own people, our own family, a brother or ...

I grew up a pastor's kid in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church. So I had a front-row seat to a traditional black church until I was a teenager. ...

My Dear Shepherds,

When things were desperate, when the future of his incorrigible flock hung in the balance, their good shepherd, Moses, pleaded with ...

My Dear Shepherds,

When I arrived at our new church in 1998, I was reminded of the civil war that had ravaged Bosnia a couple of years earlier. I remembered ...

My Dear Shepherds,

Church folks generally assumed I was a better pray-er than I am. Once I was talking with a guy who’d never met a pastor before. ...