My guests for this week’s podcast Rae Jean Proeschold Bell & Jason Byassee.
Rae Jean and Jason have recently wrote the book, “Faithful and Fractured: Responding to the Clergy Health Crisis,” a book that seeks to answer the question why are pastors in such poor health and what can be done about it? Rae Jean is associate research professor of global health at the Duke Global Health Institute and the Duke Center for Health Inequalities and Jason is the Butler Chair in Homiletics and Biblical Hermenuetics at Vancouver School of Theology and the author of several books and a contributing editor to the Christian Century.
Jason and Rae Jean reflect on the unique vocation of being a pastor, the true joys of the job but also the distinct challenges that can lead to poor emotional, spiritual and physical health. This is a really good conversation not only for clergy but for those who work with and care for them.