burnout
The little engine that needed collaborators
Clergy burnout happens when churches expect pastors to do everything and pastors oblige.
A clergy mental health crisis
The stress of the past few years has brought many to the breaking point.
Whose problem is clergy burnout?
Training in healthy ministry for pastors—and congregations
8 ways to recruit, engage, and keep volunteers
Churches need volunteers. Those volunteers need something in return.
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.
Artists with office hours
Many of the recent articles about clergy burnout suggested that it's a symptom of cognitive dissonance: pastors think their job ought to be a particular kind of work and are frustrated when it ends up involving something else. None of the media coverage, however, offered a compelling description of the call to ministry itself.