Stressed-Out Pastors / Famine and Children / How Many Americans are Christians?

Prof. Decker is professor of Practical Theology in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. Stressed-Out Pastors Ministers get stressed out too. And they are finally beginning to talk about it. At a conference at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, pastors talked about depression, burnout, overwork, unrealistic expectations, and other problems. Evidence of the problem is gleaned from a number of surveys among the clergy of several denominations. Of the fifty-seven pastors, for example, who left the...