Category: Clergy

  • 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…
  • November 12, 2012
    A challenge for ministry is that frequently you are asked to hear and respond to other people's pain, then drink…
  • November 9, 2012
    When you are listening to another person intensely while they are sharing their pain, it is natural that your own…
  • November 7, 2012
    While there are certainly traumatic events that a pastor experiences in exercising the ministry, a less obvious but very real…
  • November 5, 2012
    We have heard a lot about PTS or Post Traumatic Stress among those who have returned from serving in the…
  • November 2, 2012
    One of the intriguing and challenging statements that I heard at the recent Compassion Fatigue Conference was that "Disease is…
  • October 31, 2012
    Tomorrow is All Saints Day. Many churches choose the Sunday nearest to that day, in this case probably November 4,…