The question “is there a pastor shortage?” is likely to elicit an emotional response. It is much like the question, “should teachers get paid more?” No doubt, many people, without research or reason would immediately answer “yes” to each of these questions. But understanding is superior to emotion, and we ought to have reasons for

Cornelius Van Til, Letters from America, edited by Daniel Ragusa, was published in 2025, but I just heard about it now, having been given a copy. The subtitle of the book is “A Dutch Reformed Perspective for Orthodoxy in American Presbyterianism (1935-1940).” This subject and era of church history is of great interest to me,

I saw a stat recently that said there are 35,000 Roman Catholic priests in America. I am quite astounded by how small that number is. I’m not astounded that the number has declined over the decades; that fact I’m well aware of. But I am astounded at how small that number is. For comparison, there