Author: Kurt Wiesner

Perfect fear casts out love: A letter to Tory Baucum

And so I can only end with your own gracious words, and plead with you to take them to heart: “I’m very concerned that we’re stewards of this opportunity so that we can help heal the church. You know, because the church is always going to have disagreements. It always has had disagreements, significant disagreements, but I don’t think we’ve handled this disagreement well at all, and we’ve make it much more destructive than it needed to be.” – The Rev. John Ohmer

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Interviewing via Skype

Check the lighting where you will be sitting, as shadows can throw your face into darkness as you speak: very disconcerting. Make sure the background is pleasant: you don’t want a Search Committee seeing you in your kitchen or a cluttered study.

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Forced clergy terminations

There is now a growing body of recent and very disturbing literature about church conflicts, toxic congregations, poorly managed after care situations, repeat lay antagonists of clergy, episcopal mishandling of divided parishes, and related topics.

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