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Clergy bullying ‘rife’
Clergy bullying ‘rife’ says Unite union By Martin Shankleman Employment correspondent, BBC News January 4, 2010 Workplace bullying of the clergy has become “rife”, according to the union Unite which says priests are being picked on by bishops and parishioners. The union has set up a hotline where the clergy can report abuse, and says […]
SUNDAY CHURCH
Written by Tom Ehrich Sunday, 10 January 2010 Like many church leaders, I have been grappling with the steady decline of mainline Protestant churches over the past 45 years and trying to determine what we can do about it. It dawned on me that the problem isn’t what we do on Sunday. It’s how that […]
When depression leads pastors to suicide
December 01, 2009 What kind of personal pain would cause a 42-year-old pastor to abandon his family, his calling and even life itself? Members of a Baptist church in Hickory, North Carolina, are asking that question after their pastor committed suicide in his parked car in September. Those who counsel pastors say Christian culture, especially […]
From an ex-pastor
I’m no longer a pastor but I haven’t been away from it for so long that I’ve forgotten… The discouragement, The battles that I sometimes won and sometimes lost, The hypocrisy I often felt in thinking that my being a pastor was insane, The times when I didn’t know what I was doing and pretended […]
Response to a failing pastor
A pastor who feels a failure expressed those feelings, and received this positive response from another pastor: A few random thoughts for whoever you are, You need to know that only events are failures; not people. Don’t be afraid to fail in areas where you know you have no experience or gifting, and if you […]
Moral failures of Pentecostal preachers
(This is included here with great hesitation – and trepidation – and humility… ‘There but for the grace of God go I’). Each claims to either have met with Jesus personally, seen him in an open vision, been visited by angels, etc. Individual involved – Moral fault Allen, A. A. Divine Healer, Evangelist – Drunkard, […]
Church warned of errant priests
* New York * April 1, 2009 THE founder of a religious order that treats Catholic priests who molest children concluded in the 1950s that offenders were unlikely to change and should not be returned to the ministry, according to his letters, which were obtained by plaintiffs’ lawyers. Father Gerald Fitzgerald, founder of the Servants […]
Even in the church…
From a Facebook friend: “I think a lot about how we seem like a pack of dogs, always trying to gain dominance, always happy to step on whoever we have to in the process… how we give respect and honor to those who are vested with certain characteristics that seem more mate-worthy, how all the […]
Bullies and hell
Those who call themselves Christians and then proceed to bully or threaten are not only wrong, they are not Christians in the sense that they are not following any attitude, teaching or characteristic of Jesus’ teachings and person. If, as some people hold, anyone who does not become a Christian is damned to hell, then […]
Pooped Pastors
Welcome to PoopedPastors.com I’m no longer a pastor but I haven’t been away from it for so long that I’ve forgotten… The discouragement, The battles that I sometimes won and sometimes lost, The hypocrisy I often felt in thinking that my being a pastor was insane, The times when I didn’t know what I was […]
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