Ferdinand O. Regalado

A MINISTER'S professional success will be determined to an extent by his abil­ity to deal wisely with hostility. Most vet­eran ministers would admit that the maxi­mum or the minimum of a minister's use­fulness is related to this problem.…

MORE than two hundred years have passed since Dr. Philip Doddridge was a preacher in the Calvinist church at Northampton, Eng­land. His hearers were composed mostly of hum­ble shoemakers in the town's mills, and not many could read or write.…

Have you been underpaid, treated unfairly, or exploited by those in power? Has your ordination been deferred due to unfounded rumors? Have you been removed from office, or assigned to another line of work, without due process? In brief, were…

In his book, Under the Unpredictable Plant, Eugene Peterson told how his own daughter awoke him to the realization that he was neglecting family obligations because of his busyness in pastoral ministry. "I was sitting in the living…

What kind of men and women does the church need today? Those of position, power, and wealth? Those who can keep others spellbound by their oratorical skills? Those with theological and pastoral skills of the highest…