some definitions, is someone who is committed to standards of integrity and performance that cannot be altered to suit people’s tastes or what they are willing to pay for. Professionalism is in decline these days on all fronts—in medicine, in law, in politics, as well as among pastors—but it has not yet been repudiated. There are still a considerable number of professionals in all areas of life who do the hard work of staying true to what they were called to do, stubbornly refusing to do the easy