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July 11, 2024

The Difficulty of Being a Spiritual Leader Today

As religion in America declines, the toll on the nation’s clergy can be immense.

“Many years back, one of us, Steve, consulted on a study examining spiritual leaders’ well-being,” write two psychologists, Laura Captari and Steven Sandage, in a worrying report on the state of American clergy. “I was convinced there had been some sort of error when nearly one-third of the sample scored above the clinical cutoff for symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.”

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