A Clergy Husband's Survival Guide

A Clergy Husband's Survival Guide
Author: Matthew Caminer
Publisher: SPCK
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2012-10-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0281067910

Women now comprise almost half the priests serving in the Church of England. As a result, there are many male clergy spouses who have had to come to terms with the seismic shift that occurs in family life when a wife embarks on the journey from exploration of vocation - through selection, training and formation - to ordination and a life of ministry. The author had his own busy career when he suddenly found himself playing second fiddle rather than being the 'doer' in the household. Not only did this subtly affect his marriage, but as friends and acquaintances became 'parishioners', he was required to respect boundaries, to be discreet and often to carry the burden of unsought confidentiality. Drawing on these experiences and those of many fellow clergy spouses, this volume is a practical, informative and engaging guide to the joys and challenges of being married to a vicar. Part one deals with the process from initial call to ordination and beyond. Part two helps clergy husbands work through what their new role might involve. Part three looks at lifestyle and family issues, while Part four offers support and sensible advice if things go wrong.

Saved & Sexual A Survival Guide for Pastors' Wives

Saved & Sexual A Survival Guide for Pastors' Wives
Author: Poiette McGill Bromell
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2010-10-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0557213916

Pastors' wives are given a first hand account of what it means love a pastor in a way that is spiritually and sexually fulfilling. Poiette McGill Bromell shares her experience as a pastor's wife and how she meets the various challenges involved with loving the leader of a congregation. This book seeks to put romance and intimacy back where it belongs - in matrimony.

Four Ministries, One Jesus

Four Ministries, One Jesus
Author: Richard A. Burridge
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2019-01-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467452521

Combining the skills of a leading biblical scholar with the wisdom derived from years spent training candidates for ordination, Richard Burridge offers rich reflections on the four gospel portraits of Jesus and shows how they not only inform the calling to ordained ministry but also help sustain the practice of Christian ministry in its various dimensions. Four Ministries, One Jesus is for all who feel called to a life of Christian ministry and want to ground their calling in the teaching and example of Jesus, as provided in the four gospels. Burridge helps readers consider vital questions such as: how to sustain reading, Bible study, and theological reflection in ministry; how to extend pastoral care to people outside as well as inside the Christian community; how to care for self and family; and how to stay attuned to the Spirit by cultivating a fresh and vigorous life of prayer.

Curacies and How to Survive Them

Curacies and How to Survive Them
Author: Matthew Caminer
Publisher: SPCK
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2015-04-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0281073449

It is common knowledge that many curacies run into difficulties and that this is something people often feel constrained from discussing openly. Curacies and How to Survive Them offers readers the opportunity to listen in on a series of fast-flowing conversations between a psychologist, a theologian and a clergy spouse, which explore frequently occurring dilemmas and challenges. Using fictionalised case studies, collated from the true stories of curates and training incumbents, the book offers principles and strategies for understanding and addressing some common issues. Its emphasis is on the dynamics and psychology of the critical relationship between curates and their training incumbents. Attractively styled in a way reminiscent of the highly successful collaborations between John Cleese and Robin Skynner, Families and How to Survive Them and Life and How to Survive It. The conversational tone offers an engaging alternative to academic, theological and ecclesiastical writing. By highlighting issues that are not generally discussed, it will be immensely useful to people who might otherwise feel isolated and helpless.

Clergy Moms

Clergy Moms
Author: Allison M. Moore
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2008
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781596270800

Walking the tightrope of home and parish life for clergy parents is notoriously difficult in all the mainline Protestant denominations, but most books on ordination and vocation ignore the question of family life. The ordination of women, the prevalence of two-career marriages, the increasing need to care for aging family members, and the recognition of non-traditional families have shed new light on clergy family dynamics within the family and the church. This book uses accounts of experiences gathered through interviews and surveys of clergy and their family members, primarily in the Episcopal Diocese of Newark. Its ultimate goal is to develop a holistic theology of vocation that has implications for the church, the clergy, and all families and nourishes and protects faith and family life.

A Husband's Survival Guide

A Husband's Survival Guide
Author: C Scott Litch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2019-08-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781977209719

What if husbands had a guidebook relatively simple to understand and apply? A husband of over 28 years offers humorous observations and sound tactics, essentially a field guide, on how to survive a marriage and most importantly to avoid being "dumped on" by your wife for your many real and perceived shortcomings as a husband. Tens of millions of unsuspecting husbands walk around without a clue as to what to do, what just happened, and why am I in the doghouse again with my wife? This book will teach husbands the hidden pathway to a happy, successful marriage. This book offers practical strategies and solutions to a variety of sources of marital friction: relatives, children, pets, budgets, household chores, sex drive, etc. At the most fundamental level, a husband want a wife who is a life-time companion, soul mate, and best friend who will more than occasionally have sex with him. This book will help a husband achieve this success. If the husband won't read the book, then his wife can read it to him while he's watching the MLB Network.

The Youth Minister's Survival Guide

The Youth Minister's Survival Guide
Author: Len Kageler
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1991-12-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 031054341X

This wonderful and easy read helps new and future youth workers set patterns in life and ministry that will keep them whole and healthy, and away from burnout.

The Pastor's Survival Manual

The Pastor's Survival Manual
Author: Kenneth Alan Moe
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1995-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1566996678

Describes the NET Groups program (an acronym for Nurturing Experience Theologically), which begins with experiences and leads people into biblical and theological reflection.

The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers

The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers
Author: Barry J. Jacobs
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2006-03-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1606237934

Caring for a parent whose health is in decline turns the world upside down. The emotional fallout can be devastating, but it doesn't have to be that way. Empathic guidance from an expert who's been there can help. Through an account of two sisters and their ailing mother--interwoven with no-nonsense advice--The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers helps family members navigate tough decisions and make the most of their time together as they care for an aging parent. The author urges readers to be honest about the level of commitment they're able to make and emphasizes the need for clear communication within the family. While acknowledging their guilt, stress, and fatigue, he helps caregivers reaffirm emotional connections worn thin by the routine of daily care. This compassionate book will help families everywhere avoid burnout and preserve bonds during one of life's most difficult passages.

What Happens to Me After He’S Gone

What Happens to Me After He’S Gone
Author: Vera L. Lewis
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2011-12-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467876852

Evangelist Vera Lewis has been diligently working on completing her first book since her husbands transition from life on earth to life in glory. Her book presents a plan of opportunities and promotes as a financial survival guide for Pastors wives and women all over the world. It touches on the severity and unpredictability of life that should encourage us to be prepared both spiritually and economically at all times for whatever befalls us. Evangelist Vera Lewis book offers short term and long term goal opportunities to every former first lady. The suggested ideas reflect from personal experiences that reflect positive and negative results that made her a stronger woman. Evangelist Vera Lewis book also touches on a specific note to Pastors. The tests and trials of strategies and circumstances of a major transition from one life to another are so crucial. It is so important to continue a spiritual partnership so that Gods people are not negatively impacted. In this life its not about us, but its about Jesus.