A Tale From A Death Bed

July 21, 2010 By 3 Comments

Clergy Guy presents another poignant slice of a part of life to which clergy have unusual access: It was one of those late night vigils where the family was trying to find the resolve to turn off the machinery that kept the man breathing. His wife was hysterical, refusing to believe his brain was gone. [...]

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Miserable Pastors

May 20, 2010 By 12 Comments

Via Pharyngula comes a bleak picture of what is going on in the lives, hearts, and minds of Evangelical pastors: Another article reveals even more telling statistics based on a survey of 1,050 evangelical Pastors (note these are evangelical pastors not liberal pastors): 89% considered leaving the ministry at one time. 57% said they would leave [...]

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Nothing Left To Prove

March 11, 2010 By 1 Comment

Clergy Guy has a great post on his time spent visiting the elderly.  Read the whole thing.  Here’s just his moral, but there’s a lot of fun getting here: Often someone will grab my hand and speak urgently of what they used to do. “I was a policeman for 35 years.” “I owned a ranch.” [...]

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Will The Real Atheists Please Stop Kneeling

September 18, 2009 By 14 Comments

Earlier this week I mentioned the rumor being spread that the New Atheists are the new prophets.  Well now we can add the following bold conjectures from friend of Camels With Hammers, Clergy Guy: The church has deteriorated over the years to where we have a great number of thumbsucking, overindulged, lazy people who want somebody to pay [...]

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