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Professions that attract the most psychopaths
Professions that attract the most psychopaths From: news.com.au November 07, 2012 11:29AM Psychopaths gravitate towards powerful jobs They thrive in jobs that require cutthroat decisions Psychopaths thrive in professions that offer power and require cutthroat decision making. Picture: Thinkstock IF you work in a law firm, media company or police station take a look around. Slowly. You […]
Henri Nouwen’s wisdom
The Poverty of Our Leaders There is a tendency to think about poverty, suffering, and pain as realities that happen primarily or even exclusively at the bottom of our Church. We seldom think of our leaders as poor. Still, there is great poverty, deep loneliness, painful isolation, real depression, and much emotional suffering at the […]
You Can Have the Perfect Pastor
The perfect pastor preaches exactly 10 minutes. He condemns sin roundly but never hurts anyone’s feelings. He works from 8 AM until midnight and is also the church janitor. The perfect pastor makes $40 a week, wears good clothes, drives a good car, buys good books, and donates $30 a week to the church. He […]
If it seems like your pastor is crazy
6AUGby Guest Author Losing Paradise, He Qi Note from CM: Randy Thompson is one of our faithful readers and commenters. Randy and his wife Jill have served churches in New England for over twenty years and are now running a retreat in New Hampshire called Forest Haven where they minister to other ministers. Today’s post will help you understand why they […]
Pastoral Resources for Visiting the Sick and Dying
31JULby Chaplain Mike Resources for pastoral care, especially when it comes to visiting and ministering to the sick and dying. First, the mainline and historic traditions usually have excellent resources for ministers. The contents of the best of these prayer books and pastor’s manuals reflect the wisdom of the ages as they guide the visitor in various […]
Clergy Self-Care: Finding a Balance for Effective Ministry
Clergy Self-Care: Finding a Balance for Effective Ministry, by Roy M Oswald (Alban Institute, 1991) is still one of the best books on stress and burnout in Christian ministry. Roy Oswald has been ‘through it’ – his own burnout, mid-life crisis, divorce, four years of heavy psychoanalysis etc. – and for a couple of decades […]
Clergy Self-Care (Roy Oswald)
‘Unfortunately, the majority of us clergy were sent to our places of ministry with a minimal amount of support or training in spiritual formation. Somehow, between courses in theology and the Bible, plus daily chapel attendance, we budding pastors were supposed to develop into spiritual giants. Yet, in the three years I spent in a […]
Ministry Risk Factors
Ministry Risk Factors  How Do You Stack Up? by Tony Stoltzfus Aug 12th, 2009 | By Tony Stoltzfus | Category: Coaching Tools, Transformational Coaching The 18 risk factors for pastors shown below are given with statistics that show where pastors are at today. You may be surprised or even shocked at some of the […]
Ex-Pastors: Why do they drop out?
Leadership is Influence is Dropout (Part 1) by Thomas Scarborough Dropout among ministers in the USA, by various estimates, lies between 80% and 95%. The second figure is widely accepted, and implies that the number of ministers who remain in ministry halves every ten years. The purpose of this article, and of that which is […]
Ministry Mistakes
Stupid Ministry Tricks: The Best of My Bone-Headed Ministry Mistakes (+ A Bonus!) 7JANby Chaplain Mike Classic iMonk Post by Michael Spencer From June 2009 It came to me today that many of you have probably felt that this web site was remiss in offering practical encouragement to those who are laboring in the work of […]
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