Reclaiming the slow work of grace
The rise in clergy exhaustion and burnout is also do to ever more thinly spread clergy, confronted with ever increasing demands. No matter how well or deeply formed you are, the job that clergy are asked to do is one that it is hard to flourish in.
Agreed. Similar responses to yours, David, led me subsequently to write my piece about clergy burnout https://markclavier.substack.com/p/clergy-burnout-and-the-cure-of-souls?r=2gf2pg
The rise in clergy exhaustion and burnout is also do to ever more thinly spread clergy, confronted with ever increasing demands. No matter how well or deeply formed you are, the job that clergy are asked to do is one that it is hard to flourish in.
Agreed. Similar responses to yours, David, led me subsequently to write my piece about clergy burnout https://markclavier.substack.com/p/clergy-burnout-and-the-cure-of-souls?r=2gf2pg