Irreverent reverend. Hospital chaplain. Burnout survivor. @ChurchPubInc author. Embodiment of my 🇦🇲 ancestors. Archived account, find me at Bluesky. He/him.
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Apr 29, 2022 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
Since I announced my resignation and retirement from church ministry, I’ve been asked why more clergy are leaving their churches, and in some cases (i.e., me) are leaving church ministry altogether. There is no one reason, but I think many of our reasons are interconnected. 🧵 /1
Covid was a massive shock to the wider church—which was already frankly in a state of deep disrepair—but what covid really did was bring to the surface a *lot* of toxic ish that was bubbling just underneath, which we clergy tried desperately to fix, or to at least keep at bay. /2
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