Trust and Theology
A New Chapter: Can we articulate a pastoral theology of trust?
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Trust and Debt (opens the original)
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Debt is an odd thing. The reality of debt in our contemporary society is that we see it as a tool to obtain a material benefit when its cost exceeds the resources we possess at any given moment. We leverage the future resources we will produce or receive against the cost of what we desire, and someone then makes those resources available to us. Because of market demand and high prices, and the challenge of having the money available at a given moment to buy needed or desired items, borrowing to
Trust and Desuetude (opens the original)
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Trust and Abidance (opens the original)
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My grandfather (and grandmother) ran a funeral home for nearly forty years in a small town in Michigan. There were only two funeral homes, both family-run, for that country community, a small mill town surrounded by section roads and farms. As a result, their business culture relied on a deep intimacy with their clients, who were also their neighbors and friends. As with everything, there were benefits and costs.The benefits were immense, particularly in the long term. I vividly remember when my
Trust and Treachery (opens the original)
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Once upon a time.I had a dark moment in ministry and life, and emerging from that season, I found a new sense of self and purpose. That sounds so poetic, doesn’t it? At least it might be the opening line of some piece of theater or of some epic tale. Truly, perhaps, it is a bit of both; but for the fact that it was my life. People close to me, for whom I hold deepest affection, devotion, and care, were harmed. I was harmed. Life was interrupted, and relationships were compromised; some were lost
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