EFCA Pastor Benjamin Vrbicek Writes About Pastors Staying Put

EFCA Pastor Benjamin Vrbicek leads Community Evangelical Free Church in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Inside his EFCA East District he's probably the most published when it comes to articles and books. Recently at Christianity Today he wrote an article about the struggle of modern pastoring and dealing with the demands of the job. But as Benjamin writes …

Is Chris Hilken Dealing With Unimaginable Loss? Or is an Alleged Narcissist Using a Tragedy for a Platform?

There is an interesting video of former EFCA pastor Chris Hilken that raises questions that this blog would like to ask. Hilken's wife Paige committed suicide in 2021. But when I watched his video with Vineyard/Charismatic pastor Ed McGlasson this blogger is being forced to ask the question. Is this a pastor mourning his wife's …

Lorie Smith and the Dishonesty of Evangelicals

This is a post about evangelical culture that developed out of a breaking situation. Lorie Smith is an evangelical Christian who filed a lawsuit saying she did not want to build a website for a gay wedding. The case made its way to the Supreme Court, where after it was ruled it was learned that …

Evangelical Pastor! Its Time for You to Take a Job and Perhaps for the First Time in Your Life Work

In the Washington Post they had an article that looked at the documentary on Hillsong. Former New York pastor Carl Lentz spoke about leaving the evangelical scene and actually taking a desk job in Florida. That comment led to this post. How many evangelical pastors have experience outside the churches they have live in? How …

How Tucker Carlson Replaced the Pastor and Influenced Evangelicalism

The evangelical pastor cannot compete against cable news, but especially against personalities like Tucker Carlson. A pastor has one hour a week whereas Tucker had five. The Biblical illiteracy of many evangelicals makes them easy to be influenced by a demagogue like Tucker Carlson. This blog would suggest that more evangelicals are influenced and discipled …

John Welborn at the EFCA’s Salem Church on Staten Island, New York on Humiliation and Ministry Ignores the Issue of Narcissists and Sociopaths in Evangelical Ministry

John Wellborn, who leads the EFCA's Salem Church in Staten Island writes a blog post about God using humiliation, and how that is a prerequisite for ministry. But is what Wellborn writing about apply to sociopaths and narcissists who are attracted to evangelicalism and ministry positions? This blog would say no, and point out that …