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Rachel Hackenberg
Rachel Hackenberg is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and the author of Writing to God. She blogs at Faith and Water, part of the CCblogs network.
I let the Holy Spirit see my dirty laundry
I was counting on her discretion.
On birthdays and Pentecost
First, a confession: I’m not a big fan of my birthday.
Actually that’s not quite accurate. I like my birthday just fine, but as an inherently private person I’m not a big fan of others’ expectations of how I should spend my birthday, so I’m deliberate about keeping the actual date under wraps.
Sing us a lullaby
Sing us a lullaby, Rachel, the kind of lullaby that you’ve been singing across a lifetime.
Is clergy burnout really a crisis?
Is the crisis whether
we burn out, or how we burn out?
The myth about pastors
The
myth about pastors, simply stated, is that we are helpers; that ours is...
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