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Anne Jackson asked her readers about burnout yesterday.  She wanted us to offer what we’d like to hear at a conference breakout session on burnout.  Church work often leads to burnout, and Anne talks all about it in her book Mad Church Disease, coming out next February.
I responded with two related thoughts:
1. The gospel we [...]

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What drives you? What will you do?
“John, by contrast, takes us up the mountain, and says quietly: ‘Look—from here, on a clear day, you can see for ever.’ We beheld his glory, glory as of the Father’s only Son. John does not describe the transfiguration, as the other Gospels do; in a sense, John’s [...]

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