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UMC bishops given 3% retroactive pay hike
What pastors get paid, and when it’s not enough
Financial stress is harming ministers—some more than others.
by C. Kirk Hadaway and Penny Long Marler
When it comes to equal pay for women, the church should do better than employers generally, not worse.
by Carol Howard Merritt
Most of us have seen this coming for a decade, but it’s still startling to read the headlines in the Atlantic: "The Vanishing of Middle Class Clergy."
None of this is news. We know pastors who feed their children with food stamps.