This article reflects on the usefulness of Richard Baxter's book The Reformed Pastor to consider the call to the ministry. The article summarizes five admonitions of Baxter into three rules of pastoral practice: active spirituality, pastoral integrity, and pastoral competence.

This article deals with the book of Judges from an ethical perspective. The author writes from the conviction that Judges is rich in ethical insight even though there are not direct prescriptions by way of laws or rules of conduct. Judges deals with the community of faith as the place and context for moral formation. The concept of irony is worked with to indicate how life without God looks like.