by Alyssa Aldape | Feb 28, 2022 | Opinion
Do you remember the youth room of your childhood church? Mine was on the second floor and back corner of Manor Baptist Church. But before the sixth grade, my family left the church I grew up in and moved to a predominantly white church in the suburbs of San Antonio....
by Mitch Randall | Feb 11, 2022 | Opinion
There has been much talk lately about clergy burnout. Barna Group reported at the end of 2021 that 38% of clergy considered leaving ministry during the pandemic. Personally, I have spoken to numerous ministers confirming that data. While most of the attention to...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Nov 18, 2021 | News
A growing number of Protestant pastors in the U.S. have considered leaving full-time ministry, according to a Barna Group report published Nov. 16. More than one third (38%) reported that they had seriously considered doing so in a survey conducted by Barna in...
by Ben Brown | Sep 20, 2021 | Opinion
Dead silence. Not a peep. This was the response at a meeting of local ministers when a denominational leader asked, “What are y’all thinking about in regards to your ministries in 2022?” That was the moment that I realized part of the weight that I’m carrying. Leading...
by Paul Beasley-Murray | May 1, 2014 | Opinion
In the week that dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer in Britain, declared that obesity is now so common that society is “normalizing being overweight,” I attended a ministers’ meeting where two-thirds of those present were grossly overweight. I...
