Ministers are like plants, or so I suggested in my last article. Like any living thing, plants must grow. While some plants stay indoors for the entirety of their lifespan, most plants that begin indoors need to go through a process called hardening...
A succulent sits on my desk at church. I bought it years ago because I wanted something to break up the monotony of my office, as well as something to symbolize my ambitions in pastoral ministry. Crassula ovata—so my horticulturalist wife told...
