![]() ![]() But I think it’s necessary as the endcap to our series on Meaning and Purpose in Life. I’m warning you now: this was hard for me to write about, and it may be, in turn, hard to read about. This is seriously the saddest group of people I’ve encountered lately in Christianity. I guess he knows that no help is forthcoming. ![]() Today I’ll show you what this problem looks like, what the women dealing with the problem make of it, and what it means for the religion as a whole. It’s happening for a very specific reason, too, and tells us something specific about the religion–though the women facing the problem don’t realize it yet. Their burnout might even be worse than that of their husbands, but these wives’ predicament gets next to no attention in Christian eyes. That aspect is the burnout of those pastors’ wives, which can happen totally independently of their husbands’ burnout or alongside it. We’ve talked about pastoral burnout before on this blog–about what a big problem it is for Christian churches, many of which are now scrambling to find qualified leaders–but there’s one aspect to that burnout that we haven’t covered much. ![]()
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