Pastoral beards

Pastoral beards

Pastors these days like to wear beards.  So says Leadership Journal, published by Christianity Today, whose blog shows the various styles preferred by various kinds of pastors.  I reproduce them here, adding also a distinctly Lutheran kind of beard.

From  Out of Ur: The Beards of Ministry:

 

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What I like is the beard of 17th century Lutheran orthodoxy:

I don’t know any pastors today who look like this, but we need to bring this beard–associated also with Buffalo Bill-type frontiersmen–back into fashion.

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