Sojourn Network blog provide seven signs of burnout. I can’t stress enough that I’m not posting this simply for/about pastors. Anyone could suffer this, particularly folk who are in any situation where the situation isn’t satisfying, doesn’t have definable and objectively achievable goals, and has no known conclusion. As the last paragraph alludes, they’re promising …

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David Robertson, pastor of a presbyterian congregation in Dundee, Scotland recently suffered a catastrophic health breakdown. Last Sunday, for the first time in months, he preached before his church family. In this blog post he offers some observations about his illness and recuperation. On October the 14th last year, after conducting a wedding in St …

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Famous atheist Christopher Hitchens continues to communicate about his experience with cancer and immanent death in an article at Vanity Fair. Hitchens writes so very well. And, I would venture, he is using his skill to express that which others in his circumstance feel, but lack the capacity to articulate. One of my colleagues was …

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