Last weekend, we,The Anchor, thesatiricaldivision of theHoly Church of Iggy the Inuit, felt the peculiar need for an apology. It is a feeling we seldom have, being a general pain in the arse and having carefully cultivated the pompous pernickety air our spiritual job has brought upon us....
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As a spiritual discipline, iconography is to be considered a vocation, on the same level as any other ecclesiastical vocation. It is certainly so in the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is not be considered a “job” in the profane sense of the word, or some mundane commercial venture. It woul...
Some of these are healthy losses like job transitions or college student move-aways, and some are due to spiritual backsliding and the church hoppers that we all know so well. This means that for a church to grow annually by 10% it actually needs to grow by 20%. As I’ve written in ...
I have used Music Travel Consultants for many years with my groups at West Ranch HS and simply put, they're the best! From start to finish Music Travel Consultants takes care of ALL the details in a friendly, professional and quick manner. They make the job of going on tour with an en...
For the next 15 years he'd continue to master his craft, honing his skills on both the piano and organ. These days, he's known as one of the greatest gospel musicians alive and mentioned beside others like Kevin Bond and Michael Bereal....
There are too many to mention them all: writers -- Dickens, Browning, Tennyson; musicians -- Handel, Purcell, Vaughan Williams; politicians -- Pitt, Gladstone, Chamberlain; scientists, architects, explorers and reformers. Some might be surprised to be here. Charles Darwin, despite his atheism...
In the Old Testament, the prophet Isaiah, speaks of those God commissioned as watchmen. However, he does not commend them for a job well-done; in fact, he rebukes them as nothing more than “dumb dogs”. He indicts them as “blind” and “ignorant”. He suggests they value the comfo...
Of course, this kind of people-as-commodity thinking is compounded by living in a highly mobile society. We can move on from a job, move on from a school, move on from a church, any time that relationships become difficult. We can move halfway across the county if we wish and “star...
So many people offer their time and talents to a church and its ministries, even if they’re not paid staff. The people who are paid staff often go above and beyond their job roles to keep the church running. Putting on an awards program that recognizes the hard work those people offer...