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Full-time ministry drains too many clergy and church budgets. Part-time pastors can help.
The happier, healthier future of ministry is in part-time clergy. — G. Jeffrey MacDonald
The nones have changed campus chaplains’ jobs — and made them more interesting
All students, not just Christians, come talk to me about class and life in general. — Lyn Pace