Ben Campbell Johnson
Ben Campbell Johnson, D.Min., Ph.D., is professor emeritus of Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia.
Help for spiritual leaders in hard times
Clergy today are having a difficult time! Congregations are harder to serve. They are of greater diversity and have higher expectations. Ministers are caught between traditional values and outlooks and a high-pressure array of daunting innovation and moral uncertainty, all easily identifiable in any one congregation. The pastor is no longer the parson, almost universally looked up to and respected by those under his or her care.