Thanks to Pastor Alms at Incarnatus Est for pointing out this article on Yahoo! Hot Jobs Web site. It backs up one of the articles in the Admission Department’s recent book Formation: Essays for Future Pastors. In his essay The Pastor and His Family, Pastor David Petersen, a 1996 CTS graduate, pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church, and author of Cyberstones: A Lutheran Blog, discusses this very thing. Here is his article in full. Consider it a small taste of the entire book.

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Pastor Alms at Incarnatus Est has an insightful post on the temptation for church historians to romanticize the past. He successfully disarms such notions through an enlightening quotation from Robert Taft’s book Through Their Own eyes : Liturgy as the Byzantines Saw It. In this particular quotation, Taft describes not the liturgical theology of the Byzantines, but what the people actually did. Taft writes:

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