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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…