Being part of a minister’s family is different from being in other families. Not only are you in a 24…

One of the ways that pastors develop support for themselves is building friendships with other pastors that they can occasionally…

Over my years of ministry, I can clearly remember when someone in the congregation recognized a particularly difficult time for…

One of the ways that a presbytery or governing body can help families of clergy is by helping them realize…

You can do the exercise I’m suggesting by yourself, with your spouse, or with the entire family. It will be…

All professions have their impact on the families of the person in that profession. You could probably name both positive…

Look, up in the sky It’s a bird, It’s a plane, No, it’s superclergy Faster than unfolding sexual scandals More…

Once you have some images of what might be good for you and your church through the process we identified…

Sometimes we can get so mired down in the daily details that we can lose perspective. Even if you are…

You are conscious of the drain on your emotional resources, vacation is still a while off, but you can carve…

You check your emotional pulse and realize that you have taxed your emotional reserves but the demands of ministry continue.…

A clergy friend of mine recently went through one of those periods in his pastorate when he had had 5…

Pause in the normal work of a presbytery meeting and ask people to spontaneously respond with a word of phrase…

We are exploring how a presbytery might help her churches in remembering who they are as the called people of…

As Israel was constantly learning, being set apart by God was less a reason for pride than of humble awe.…

I believe it was John Bright in his History of Israel who said that a major factor in preventing Israel…

I think we have about 11 Monday holidays on this country’s calendar. Since I normally took Mondays as my day…

You are in a blue funk. You are going through the motions, quite successfully, but internally you are hitting an…

Feelings are very mercurial. At one moment they are up and another time they are down. Sometimes we can attribute…

Acedia feeds upon the thought that nothing is worthwhile. Ecclesiastes gives expression to such thoughts. “Vanity of vanities, says the…