Flourishing in Ministry

How to Cultivate Clergy Wellbeing

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvMatt Bloom

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Pastoral work can be stressful, tough, demanding, sometimes misunderstood, and often underappreciated and underpaid. Ministers devote themselves to caring for their congregations, often at the expense of caring for themselves. Studies consistently show that physical health among clergy is significantly worse than among adults who are not in ministry. Flourishing in Ministry offers clergy and those who support them practical advice for not just surviving this grueling profession, but thriving in it.Matt Bloom, director of the Flourishing in Ministry project, shares groundbreaking research from more than a decade of study. Flourishing in Ministry project draws on more than five thousand surveys and three hundred in-depth interviews with clergy across denominations, ages, races, genders, and years of practice in ministry. It distills this deep research into easily understandable stages of flourishing that can be practiced at any stage in ministry or ministry formation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-10-09
Mått162 x 236 x 18 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor152
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538118955

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Matt Bloom is the principal investigator on the Flourishing in Ministry project (funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.) and the Faith and Flourishing at Work project (funded by Templetone Religion Trust). He is associate professor at the University of Notre Dame and director of the Wellbeing at Work project. Matt has studied and published academic and practitioner articles on wellbeing at work for more than twenty-five years.

A genuine treasure trove of wisdom on what promotes flourishing in ministry and what derails it. Informed by a rich set of data—surveys and interviews with ten-thousand pastors from diverse settings—this book not only captures key factors behind thriving, it offers concrete means to sustain wellness. This invaluable guide and the bigger project from which it grows are destined to transform how we think about the lives and wellbeing of congregational pastors.