||Book Summary|| This book is valuable for the vision of pastoral ministry that it (re)introduces. Given the kind of challenges that Christianity faces today, church leadership needs to have more heft for the sake of the more intellectual elements of discipleship.
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||Pastoral Passage|| An obscure man from faraway times, whose name is preserved as by a thread, whose unremarkable life reminds us of our place in God’s wide world.
||Short Article|| Compelling motivations exist for Christians not to promote conspiracy theories. Even the ones that they are certain are true.
The excellent book The Trellis and the Vine finishes on a note that is strikingly relevant for our present context.
Chris Northcott 