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Clear Your Desk!

When a pastor is forced out We tend to think of America as the place of the “hire and fire” culture – sadly we have the same kind of culture in some UK churches. A 2008 US study reckoned that around 23% of pastors have either had their contracts terminated or been forced to resign. …

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Be Tender-Hearted and Thick-Skinned: How Humility Protects Pastors from Pastoral Burnout

They wanted to talk about my preaching. I hadn’t been at the church very long, but they had some concerns. A few single women recently left the church, and these deacons were convinced it was my fault. My sermons, they insisted, must be too “masculine.” I didn’t know what they meant—I still don’t! I certainly …

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The Origins of the Black Protestant Tradition in America

Editor’s note: This post first appeared in Ad Fontes, a publication of the Davenant Institute. The recent publication of David Hackett Fischer’s African Founders introduced prominent Early Republic African-American clergymen to the reading public. The book’s cover features Absolom Jones, a prominent Episcopal rector of a Black congregation in Philadelphia. Born enslaved, Jones was the first person …

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