Burnt: Part 3

Burnt: Part 3

That old familiar body ache, the snaps from the same little breaks in your soul. You know when it’s time to go. I am lucky enough to be a leader in a community of several thousand called Women in Youth Ministry. There’s always conversation happening in our...
Burnt: Part 2

Burnt: Part 2

cw: sexual harassment, clergy abuse Last week, we started a series talking about, broadly, burnout, but more specifically, the ways in which church leadership can become devastatingly unhealthy for those who feel called to lead them, and the cost that unhealth can...
Burnt

Burnt

I had a meeting with a church leader the other day who told me, with a bit of hesitation, that, after almost ten years at their current church they were out. For good.  They had felt the call, they had done good ministry, but the church had changed, the...
Electroreception

Electroreception

Some catfish can hunt by detecting the electrical current of their prey’s heartbeat, it’s a sense called electroreception.  Scientists are just beginning to understand how electroreception works, and why the seemingly scattershot collection of animals who have it...
Interns

Interns

When I was 21, I got the chance to intern at the headquarters of a large, prestigious human rights organization in Washington, D.C. There was a class of 24 of us, and my fellow interns were some of the brightest people my own age I had ever met. They went to schools...