Category: Clergy Health

  • March 22, 2013
    Our culture does not usually associate ministry and anger. Yet many clergy will confess to some strong currents of anger…
  • March 20, 2013
    Our culture has a bias against anger. As a child we are told not to get angry. As we grow,…
  • March 15, 2013
    When you think about it, the number one problem most of us face in the developed world is also the…
  • November 30, 2012
    While it is understandable that we will have periods of anger and doubt, as expressed in Psalm 22, it is…
  • November 28, 2012
    Psalm 22 provides a biblical template for responding to the emotionally stressful atmosphere around us in a spiritually healthy way.…
  • November 26, 2012
    We have just passed through the season of Thanksgiving. The power of praise and thanksgiving as an antibody to the…
  • November 21, 2012
    In my last blog, I spoke of the importance of naming your feelings and begin to place your emotional experience…
  • November 19, 2012
    When you have had a traumatic experience, or sympathetically shared in the trauma of another person, the feelings can be…
  • November 16, 2012
    A key antibody that resists the toxic atmosphere in which we must live is the maintenance of a sense of…
  • November 14, 2012
    A third part of developing your antibodies, is developing some clarity as to the limits of your ministry. The integrity…