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Clergy Self-Care: Finding a Balance for Effective Ministry
Clergy Self-Care: Finding a Balance for Effective Ministry, by Roy M Oswald (Alban Institute, 1991) is still one of the best books on stress and burnout in Christian ministry. Roy Oswald has been ¢â‚¬Ëœthrough it ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬“ his own burnout, mid-life crisis, divorce, four years of heavy psychoanalysis etc. ¢â‚¬“ and for a couple of decades […]
Cardinal Pell – the next Pope???
Our man in Rome June 16, 2012 Rome, sweet Rome ¢â‚¬ ¦ Cardinal George Pell in the chapel at Domus Australia ¢â‚¬“ a $30-million guest house and place of worship for Australian Catholics in Rome. Photo: Susan Wright As the Australian Catholic Church’s most powerful figure, Cardinal George Pell sees it as his task to keep […]
Lonely Priest
Sightings 6/18/2012 Lonely Priest — Martin E. Marty Surveys, statistics, data, graphs, and trend studies have their place when we look at and analyze the ¢â‚¬Å“church life ¢â‚¬ (and ¢â‚¬Å“synagogue life, ¢â‚¬ and all the rest) that makes up a major part of ¢â‚¬Å“public religion, ¢â‚¬ (our weekly topic) in American life. They tell us how things are, collectively […]
American Religion and Cultural Dominance
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 5/7/2012 Cultural Dominance — Martin E. Marty The class will please come to order. Our text today is ¢â‚¬Å“The Law of Cultural Dominance, ¢â‚¬ formulated by David Kaplan in Cultural Evolution, published fifty-two years ago, and noticed too little since. […]
Worship services: why don’t they appeal to men?
(This is all a bit simplistic/corny/judgmental… but you get the idea) Your Worship Service Might Be Effeminate If . . . Liturgy and Worship – Liturgical Notes Written by Douglas Wilson Monday, 16 April 2012 15:19 For a number of interesting reasons, Christian worship in the West has become increasingly effeminate. Leon Podles outlines some […]
Ecumenical Realities
Sightings 4/2/2012 — Martin E. Marty ¢â‚¬Å“Hopes for an ¢â‚¬ËœEcumenical Spring ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬ was a Christian Century headline above a report by Adelle M. Banks of the Religion News Service. Her report spelled out why such hopes are wan, if not desperate. Three samples: The National Council of Churches has shrunk from 400 staffers in its prime […]
Youth Turned Off by Religion and Politics, Turn Away From Church
(Photo: REUTERS/Sean Gardner) Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (C) receives a blessing from Pastor Dennis E. Terry, Sr. (L) after being interviewed by Family Research Council President Tony Perkins (R) at Greenwell Springs Baptist Church in Greenwell Springs, Louisiana March 18, 2012. March 19, 2012|1:11 pm Young people are turning away […]
9/11: IF YOU WERE THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
In his latest book, A Lever and a Place to Stand, Richard Rohr (p.32) offers this: ‘When I look at the American Christian Churches since 9/11, it seems that church has frequently become one more place for frightened people to hide. It often became a way to give ourselves a quick fix of surety and […]
Why Young People Are Fleeing Conservative Evangelicalism
Some leave because they oppose the church’s doctrinal stance. Others are turned off by its hostility to science. Others reject the limitations placed on sex. February 9, 2012 | The results of a five-year study of the Millennial Generation ¢â‚¬”people born between 1982 and 1993 ¢â‚¬”are in. Thanks to the Barna Group, a 28-year-old, California-based, Christian research firm, we […]
‘Embrace Christ Not Religion…’
So… Was Jesus a Christian? See http://jmm.org.au/articles/9664.htm
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