Clergy Health Resources
Clergy Financial Health
…recognizes the stress that finances and low salaries can add to a pastor’s health. It offers strategies for how to examine and respond to the effect of finances on one’s ministry.
Clergy Spiritual Health
Introduces the art of humor as a healing antidote to the toxic aspects of ministry so that the clergy can both sustain their own health and offer a healthy presence to those around them. Includes a pastor’s survival notebook for one’s personal health.Publication in early 2020. Contact steve@smccuthan.com if you would like to be notified when the volume is available
Clergy Vocational Health
…looks at our understanding of the call of God and how to nurture that call even when we have negative experiences.Publication in early 2020. Contact steve@smccuthan.com if you would like to be notified when the volume is available
Clergy Family Health
The tension between the demands of ministry and responding to the interests and needs of the family, regardless of its configuration, can be either positive or negative, healthy or unhealthy.
Clergy Physical Health
…designed to provide clergy, congregations, and governing bodies with a choice of strategies to nurture the health of religious leaders.
Clergy Emotional Health
The church and its leadership are imperfect members of the human community. Learning how to make healthy responses to the imperfections of ourselves and the world provides a witness of Good News to the world.
Whether lay or clergy, you can grow to trust that as you act, God will guide you in your decisions. Many of the strategies suggested can be fun and invigorating.
A Company of Pastors
…offers a fresh approach to overcoming the type of loneliness that seems inherent in the lives of religious leaders. The book offers a two-year framework for a clergy support group among pastors.
…ministry is learning how to see the presence of God in the midst of the hopes and fears, generosity and self-centeredness, kindness and cruelty of ordinary humans
An Interim Pastor’s Gift
An interim is in a perfect place to educate a congregation not only on the challenges of ministry but also on ways a congregation can join the pastor to maintain a healthy ministry.…offers suggestions on how the interim can educate the congregation about healthy ministry prior to the new pastor’s arrival.
God Laughs—Why Don’t You?
Introduces the art of humor as a healing antidote to the toxic aspects of ministry so that the clergy can both sustain their own health and offer a healthy presence to those around them. Includes a pastor’s survival notebook for one’s personal health.…utilize humor in the practice of ministry from counseling to conflict, preaching to pastoral visits…
Laughter From The Well (CD)
Seventy minutes of humorous sketches and encouraging musical reflections on the challenges of ministry.
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