Lamenting Pastoral Suicide
In 18 months, three pastors I was connected with in some way died from suicide. Those I didn’t personally know were close to friends of mine. Much has already been written on the pressures of
In 18 months, three pastors I was connected with in some way died from suicide. Those I didn’t personally know were close to friends of mine. Much has already been written on the pressures of
Perhaps you’ve seen videos like this: a guy at the gym tries to leap onto a fast-moving treadmill and face plants? The metaphorical equivalent of this blooper was my greatest fear coming back from my
My GPS is set to take me to my destination the fastest way humanly possible. I will zoom any which way to get where I’m going, focused on only two things: the speedometer and the
We developed an elaborate system of categories and tagged all the songs we had ever sung into a highly technical filter. Our service planning meetings were structured by evaluating the tone of the upcoming sermon
Schedule is my friend. Schedule helps me know when to work and when to be home. Schedule drives me to rest when I should. Schedule tells me when to get up in the morning. Schedule
Mouths wide open, eyeballs as big as tennis balls, and a general feeling of blanket offense was the response of my congregation when I told them Americans are terrible at friendship. But as the first
The following article is part of a series where Ryan Williams and his wife, Natasha, write corresponding articles on ministry throughout times of trial. This article is the companion piece to Natasha’s post on the
Nothing invades and infiltrates the intimate conversations of a ministry couple more than trial in the church. While the husband is the head of the home, one of the wife’s responsibilities is to be an
I teach communications as my pastoral side hustle. As a former disc-jockey and radio sports reporter, I fancy myself a student of the discipline. But like the Lord Jesus said, “Doubtless you will quote to
Trial in the church takes a massive emotional and spiritual toll on the ministry leader. The unseen weight of that trial often falls on the ministry wife because there’s simply nothing left in the husband’s
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