(un)Fair use

This is another one of those strips that’s not too far from actual conversations I’ve had. One of these days the “wedding industry” and I are going to have a LONG talk.

Tools of the trade

This post is in honor of a friend who isn’t a pastor, but needs one of these nonetheless. You may choose another metaphorical implement. The rules are: it can’t be something that could do actual harm in it’s non-metaphorical state, and you MUST add the “of doom” at the end of the title. It’s the…

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Divine Comedy

The day after I was ordained a friend asked, “So how does it feel to be an ordained pastor?” I replied, “Well, I don’t match my own vision of what an ordained pastor should be like.” My friend responded, “That’s probably a good thing.”. He was right.

Clones

Pastors sometimes joke, “The Church would be perfect if everyone in it were just like ME.”. This is odd, as the person pastors are most critical of is the person who stares back at them in the mirror.

Morphology

I honestly wonder what’s more responsible for the change in the way we pastors think of ourselves. Did our language-shift influence our self-understanding or was it the other way around?

Behind the Pain

Since I began posting the “Painfully Hopeful” strip with regularly I’ve had a lot of folks ask, “How do you do that cartoon thing?” I’ve mentioned that I do it all on my iPhone, but let me take the time to show you the process… Today, I learned another trick that I can do in…

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