SHOULD PASTORS BE COUNSELORS? Under the title: “The Shingle and The Manse” Mary Vander Goot, professor of psychology at Calvin College, answers this question in the negative in an article in The Reformed Journal for September, 1983. She begins by agreeing that in the broader use of the term counselling, pastors are called to […]

MINISTERS, COUNSELORS, AND QUACKS! The June 7, 1963, issue of Christianity Today is in the main devoted to ministers and the problem of preaching. The common complaint is that ministers do not have time to make sermons. That is quite an anomoly. Imagine a physician saying that he was too busy to practice medicine. For us […]