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Called to account: The importance of pastoral evaluations
Evaluation essentials
Read the main article on the importance of pastoral evaluations.
It’s not difficult to set up a comprehensive evaluation process; it takes more will than ingenuity, more desire than resources. Plenty of resources for standard review processes are available through area congregations, businesses, organizations, and denominational centers. Almost any template will need to be adapted for one’s local setting. But a review model, a purchased resource tool, or even a form used by another institution provides a starting point.
All creatures
A savior, not a hero: Jesus never shows up too late
Books
Our Only World, by Wendell Berry
Cloud of the Impossible, by Catherine Keller
Catherine Keller's latest book presents process theology as a maker of worlds. It's heady stuff—and very exciting.
Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks
When I learned there was a plan to translate the complete edition of Kierkegaard's journals and notebooks, I was dubious as to the need. I was dead wrong.
E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904–1962 and The Collected Poems of James Laughlin
E. E. Cummings and James Laughlin didn’t write with metaphysical or philosophical ambition. But that doesn’t mean their poetry doesn’t matter.
What Would Jesus Read? by Erin A. Smith
Calling and Clarity, by Doug Koskela
The feast of resources on discipleship, faith and work, and theologies of vocation continues to grow. Doug Koskela provides another serving, this one intended for young adults.
Made in Americus
In many books, the Jim Crow era is mediated through the sensibilities of white people. Jim Auchmutey shrewdly avoids this.
Departments
What Bonhoeffer knew
Bathsheba with King David’s Letter, by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669)
Missteps in church planting
A different kind of power
Breaking the codes
