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Hope for Those Mired in Mud: Toward a Nonprofessional Ministry of Practical Wisdom

Publication Date

1990

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Word and World

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Article

Abstract

The Protestant ministry seems to be in rather sad shape these days. Morale is low, the demands are high, and “clergy burnout” has become a hot topic. Members of the clergy seem to have lost their bearings. Unsure about what their vocation is, and beset by the frequently unrealistic demands placed on them by their parishioners, clergy have frequently resorted to insisting that they are no better and no worse than the laity. They are, after all, “only human.”

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