November 11, 2007
Three Stories, One Problem
By Darrel Rowland The student minister starts his car, already planning how he will unbuckle his seat belt, zoom onto a nearby causeway, and veer over the guardrail into the lake . . . The senior minister silently envies the ailing neighbor he”s visiting, wishing he could trade places with the terminal cancer patient . . . The church leader, alone one night in his small apartment, pulls out a steak knife and stares at his wrists . . . CHRISTIAN STANDARD”s editors asked for an article on sexual misdeeds by church leaders and ministers. So why are we talking





