Monday's Catch: What a Famous Poet Can Teach Rural Pastors and More

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What a Famous Poet Can Teach Rural Pastors

Stephen Witmer suggests just three reasons (admitting that there are many more) we should read and re-read the seventeenth century Anglican poet-priest George Herbert's only published prose work, A Priest to the Temple or, The Country Parson: His Character and Rule of Holy Life. Read More

A Priest to the Temple or, The Country Parson: His Character and Rule of Holy Life is available for reading online on the Project Canterbury website. I must admit that I have read this classic work numerous times. For the same work in modern spelling, see the article, A Priest to the Temple or, The Country Parson: His Character and Rule of Holy Life.

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