{"id":11211,"date":"2024-01-11T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=11211"},"modified":"2024-01-12T17:16:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T22:16:56","slug":"why-clergy-are-quitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2024\/01\/why-clergy-are-quitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Why clergy are quitting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A group of social scientists at the Hartford Institute for Religion Research have been investigating the impact of the COVID pandemic on organized religion. They have just issued a new report titled “‘I’m Exhausted All the Time’: Exploring the Factors Leading to Growing Clergy Discontentment.”<\/a> A PDF of the full report is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One key finding in this report is that in the aftermath of the panedmic, the number of congregational clergy who are both considering leaving their current position and<\/em> who are thinking about changing careers keeps increasing. We’ve been seeing some of this in Unitarian Universalism \u2014 I personally know of several UU ministers who have not only left their congregations, but who are now transitioning to a new career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I participated in this study \u2014 I have no idea how they found my email address, but they sent me the survey forms and I filled it out. Now that I see the results of the report, it turns out that I’m in the minority of clergy who still love their jobs and who have no intention of leaving ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the fact remains that many other clergy are leaving the profession. It remains to be seen what effect this has on organized religion. Will it have a positive effect, in that new clergy come along whose expectations for the profession are more aligned with the new realities of congregational life? Will it have a negative effect, by reducing the pool of qualified ministers such that too many congregations can’t find qualified leadership? Or something else entirely?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of social scientists at the Hartford Institute for Religion Research have been investigating the impact of the COVID pandemic on organized religion. They have just issued a new report titled “‘I’m Exhausted All the Time’: Exploring the Factors Leading to Growing Clergy Discontentment.” A PDF of the full report is available here. One … Continue reading “Why clergy are quitting”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[739],"class_list":["post-11211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11212,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11211\/revisions\/11212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}