A Dyed-in-the Wool New Englander Waitin’ on the “Stawm”

I am a dyed-in-the-wool New Englander. I’ve often used that expression over the years without ever knowing its origin and I never thought to ask other dyed-in-the-wool New Englanders why we refer to ourselves as such. I’d read, at some point, that the expression means “thorough-going and uncompromising” but it wasn’t until today that I …

A Tragic Reality: A Wave of Pastors Being Washed Out of Their Positions in the Church

“It’s on account of people like you that I send prophets and wise guides and scholars generation after generation – and generation after generation you treat them like dirt, greeting them with lynch mobs, hounding them with abuse” (Matt. 23:34, The Message). The Barna Institute estimates that a pastor in the United States is forced out …