clergy burnout
Burnout and resilience in the wilderness
Many rural pastors like me are finding Jesus in the desert places.
The little engine that needed collaborators
Clergy burnout happens when churches expect pastors to do everything and pastors oblige.
Whose problem is clergy burnout?
Training in healthy ministry for pastors—and congregations
Your pastor isn’t as unhealthy as you might think
The clergy are all right—at least, as all right as anyone else is.
by Amy Frykholm
Practical wisdom from the business world
Heather Bradley and Miriam Bamberger Grogan offer a hard-working playbook for addressing ministerial overload.
Spiritual Companioning, by Angela H. Reed, Richard R. Osmer, and Marcus G. Smucker
The authors of Spiritual Companioning suggest a way forward for those disenchanted with polite, shallow church relationships.
reviewed by Daniel Schrock
The pastor as person: Ministry counselor Ross Peterson
"People sometimes come in guarded and defensive. But they want to be understood, and they want to minister well."
by Amy Frykholm
What do you do when your church structure is killing you?
Many times we are working with church structures of a different time. I have seen churches with 50 people attending on Sunday morning, and they maintain 12 committees. There may have been a lot of retirees in the church, so we have committees who meet in the day. Or there might have been a lot of people without children, so everyone meets at night—on a different night, to ensure that the pastor is at every meeting.