Priests in a People's Church - A Short Review

[chronarchy]

I recently picked up a copy of the book Priests in a People's Church from the library. Well, I technically picked it up from the Univeristy of Dayton, who loaned it to OSU, who I borrowed it from

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[chronarchy]

Well, the one from UDayton is back in circulation, so you can grab it through OhioLink :) It's an easy read, so it won't take you long.

[chronarchy]

No, please do! It's a fabulous book, and I think she'd like it, actually.

[romandruid]

Funny... much of what you wrote about priests also applies to teachers, methinks. I'd forgotten how much people seem to expect from teachers, and yet how much apart from the community they can be. And oh geez, it still always surprises me to learn what a role model kids perceive me to be. *gulp* Yikes, that's a lot of responsibility. Teaching and preaching; they're much the same.

[chronarchy]

A lot of this applies to lots of leadership issues, really. I can certainly see it applying to teaching in a lot of ways. I think that's another one of those professions where people are held to an amazingly high standard, and aren't though of as "existing" outside of school. My mother runs into that often, when she sees kids outside of the classroom. They're second graders, so they don't really know how to reconcile their teacher with the rest of their reality yet. It's kind of cute, really.

[romandruid]

Yeah it's weird. Kids really want to interact with me, but they don't really like to think of me as a human being. It's weird.

[dubhlainn]

Have you read Antagonists in the Church by Kenneth C. Haugk? Mr. Haugk is a Christian minister but the concepts and ideas are very easily applied to any tradition.

I highly recommend it to any Minister, Priest, or even lay leader of any tradition.

[chronarchy]

I have it. It's got the devilish little issue of causing one to see antagonists where there are none, but so long as you're very conscious and very aware of the implications, it's a great book, yes :)

[heimskringla]

It certainly sounds like an interesting read.