Jubilee Years - Embracing Clergy Retirement

Veteran minister Bruce Epperly challenges and empowers clergy to see retirement as a celebration of new possibilities. This book garners wisdom from over 100 retired pastors, from personal preparation and public announcement to first steps following retirement and long-term adventures.

List of contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
A NEW BEGINNING
CHAPTER ONEINVITATION TO ADVENTURE
CHAPTER TWOTHEOLOGICAL GUIDEPOSTS
CHAPTER THREEEMBARKING ON A VISION QUEST
CHAPTER FOURTHE BODY IS THE TEMPLE
CHAPTER FIVEBRICKS, MORTAR, MONEY, AND MOVEMENT
CHAPTER SIX TRANSFORMATIVE THINKING
CHAPTER SEVEN LIVING IN THE SPIRIT
CHAPTER EIGHTCHANGING RELATIONSHIPS
CHAPTER NINECOMPANIONING WITH GOD
CHAPTER TENNECESSARY LOSSES
COMMENCMENT WORDS: THE JOURNEY AHEAD

About the author

Rev. Dr. Bruce Epperly has served as a congregational pastor, university chaplain, professor, and seminary administrator for nearly forty years. He is the author of over 50 books on practical theology, ministry, and spirituality, including the award-winning Tending to the Holy: The Practice of the Presence of God in Ministry. Most recently, Bruce has served as interim pastor at First Christian Church, Falls Church, Virginia, and visiting professor of process studies at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Lincoln University in California. Committed to the practice of public theology, Bruce regularly writes lectionary commentaries for www.patheos.com and www.processandfaith.org.

Summary

Taking inspiration from the Spanish word for retirement-jubilacion- veteran minister Bruce Epperly challenges and empowers clergy to see retirement as a celebration of new possibilities and not an inexorable diminishment towards irrelevance

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Epperly
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781538145494
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4549-4
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; SELF-HELP / Aging, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources, Christianity, Christian life & practice, Relating to Christian people & groups, RELIGION / Christian Living / Leadership & Mentoring, Coping with ageing, Coping with old age, Christian social thought & activity, Religious social & pastoral thought & activity, aging;life stages;ministry;retirement;self-care