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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...

Most women bear this “affair” in silence for several years, until the pressure becomes intolerable. Then they confront. Richard Foth, who spent his first dozen ministry years pioneering a new church in Urbana, Illinois, tells about one day when he came home exhausted from a marathon of appointments. His normally placid wife (by then the mother of three young children) said, “Dick, I have a question. How come you give your life away to all these people you hardly know? They get the prime time—and
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