DISQUS

Professional ministry in the church today is difficult. Ministers are seldom afforded sufficient time to do their jobs. The demands on ministers far exceeds the explicit expectations of the job. I find this the most frustrating part of my job: not being able to do it.

I suspect that is an unusual problem for ministers compared to other professionals. In other professions, your provide your service or skill, and you are paid for it. I know it isn’t always quite that simple. But for clergy, exactly what is expected of us varies wildly from congregation to congregation, season to season. I would say that in my experience I generally spend half my time on my stated job description, and the other half of my time on a wide variety of tasks outside of my actual job description and training.

I dunno. Most professional jobs that I have held are like this. Expectations vary widely and there's never enough time. That's just working life.

Not with you there. If it was Zorak at the top of the ticket, maybe.

But I’m a blogger, and thus accustomed to over-simplistic blithering.

Great line!

I saw it a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it.

I agree. It's as outrageous as proposing to write a sequel to the Bible.

That's pretty cool! He was wonderful in Planet of the Apes.

My only brush with fame is that Bob Dole once personally told me to shut up from the floor of the U.S. Senate.

To answer the question in your post title, I think that it's often about control. Perhaps your former employer is grieving over its inability to dominate you anymore.

My favorite part was their Red Shirt casualty.

It just shows that you have good taste.

So it's like a friendly Google-bombing?

here.

tiny gyms. I selected a rust-filled iron dungeon where at least 80% of the equipment is literally older than me, and it shows. But I'm grateful to have that, at least. Give me dumbells and a bench, and I'll get it done.

What bother's me are incorrect use's of apostrophe's.

I fully agree.

DAR -- why, it's as bad as a UMW convention!

I've wondered the same thing.

Then again, I can't figure out why anyone watches American Idol.

The car is in the mail.

That was great!

Yeah, ATHF needs to draw to a close. I'm a big fan, but this season has gotten really, really wierd. Like that episode where that, uh, thing happened to Carl -- man, that was approaching sickening.

The plots are losing narrative coherency even by ATHF's standards.

How many of them were spam?

I harass thee. Go and produce another Eberon novel.

Love your new blog subtitle. Very clever.

Fort Apache with Andy Dick?

My parents just came back from a mission trip to Nicaragua. Mom taught sewing and Dad taught concrete pouring.

Unnecessary Censorship.