The most-read Tribal Church posts

December 28, 2014

Here are Carol Howard Merritt's most-read posts of the year:

1) Ten reasons why being a pastor is the best job ever. In the blog-o-sphere, pastors like to complain. It’s a good space for it. But I also love to remember just how good I've got it.

2) Lonely pastors. There’s no feeling quite as depressing as a line of connection being suddenly cut short. Ministers have this sensation a lot.

In his hands, the Bible was a living, aching, burning thing.

By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.

The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one of them.

Lately I’ve been feeling the same emotions I felt when I deconstructed my evangelical faith.

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