From the Editor
Kevin A. Miller
January 1, 1996
Next month marks ten years since I came to LEADERSHIP. During that time, a lot has happened.
I've looked at more than 10,000 cartoons. (It's a rough job, I know.) Read a few thousand manuscripts, letters, faxes. Learned a lot from pastors. Written one book and a pile of articles. Made a few people mad. Won a few awards. Watched Marshall Shelley's hair turn gray. (I may be partly responsible.)
A lot has happened in my personal life as well. In the past ten years, Karen and I welcomed one child and grieved two miscarriages. Moved twice. Changed churches once. Wrote a book about marriage. Buried my father.
That last event, on a blustery April weekend almost four years ago, continues to affect me. I remember driving in the long line of cars down the winding, narrow cemetery road in western Maryland. Ahead was the shiny, black hearse, and in the next car, silhouetted in the passenger's seat, was the back of my mom's head. That must be the longest, loneliest ride in the world, I thought.
At the graveside, ducks waddled about. Dad had hunted ducks most of his life; maybe they were celebrating the downfall of their Goliath. Later that day cemetery workers lowered the carved wooden casket into the ground, and Dad, resting within in his navy blazer and Lands' End tie, disappeared from sight.
Only now am I realizing how much he taught me about church leadership. Dad is the only layperson I know who left a church because it wouldn't pay the pastor a reasonable salary. He stood in the annual meeting and called for a long-overdue raise. But some folks in small towns see financial matters a certain way, and the proposal was rejected. So Dad left.
Maybe he shouldn't have, but to him it was a matter of principle. Generosity marks a person's character, ...
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