I can’t remember where, but I think in the old Father Steve’s Morning Email I shared my thoughts about ministry burnout – mainly being that burnout is not always caused by volume but instead by having your energy drained.
Just because you are good at something does not mean that is where your passions lie.  There is a commercial on television now where women and men, all in their middle age, are sharing what they would like to do ‘when they grow up.’  What is clear is that their passion is …

A final thought about my time in New Haven that connects with life at St Timothy’s.  To be a member of the Society I have joined, one must be sponsored by an existing member and one must be interviewed.  On the surface it might seem a bit exclusionary.  It might also seem to go against the grain of what we imagine the Christian call is – all are welcome.
The Rector General of the Society talked about this.  It’s not that we want to keep anyone out, he said (and of …