Pastors, like everyone else, need paid family and medical leave
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I was shocked to find I had no paid leave or legal job protection.
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What if hospice services weren’t just for the dying?
Gloria Foster wasn’t ready for hospice, even though, with a prognosis of less than six months to live, she qualified for it. She was debilitated by diabetes and congestive heart failure and was living with both a pacemaker and a device to help pump blood from her heart to the rest of her body.
Foster didn’t want to enter hospice if, as is normally required by Medicare, she would have had to forgo treatments that might, against all odds, reverse the course of her disease.
Where our deep sadness and the world’s deep hunger meet
Sometimes vocation springs not from joy but from trauma and grief.