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Clergy Couples in Crisis: The Impact of Stress on Pastoral Marriages is unavailable, but you can change that!

What God hath joined together, let not the pastorate put asunder. Holding a pastoral marriage together is like canoeing the Colorado River. In the midst of exquisite scenery come stretches of white water that challenge a couple’s tenacity, pitch them one way and then another, soak them to the skin. The water, so placid a mile upstream, now roars its threat to swallow the frightened partners in...

She said, “My goodness—I never knew whether you needed me.” Suddenly she opened up like a flower to the sun and became the strong person she had always been. I only had to let her know she was needed. I allowed her to minister to me. This met an emotional need in her during a time of life when many wives are tied up with children and can’t do much outside. She began a whole new ministry along with me. The minister who denies his emotional needs is really denying his weaknesses. He thinks he’s a ninety-day
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