Moral Dilemmas in Parish Ministry and content of The Hymnal

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leaders can take practical steps toward creating a shared and sustainable space

'” Clergy and lay leaders are terrified of asking for major and planned gifts while parishes need them and donors need to give them

and resistance

or large multi-generational groups

Moral Dilemmas in Parish Ministry and content of The HymnalA new way of approaching and understanding moral conflict within ministry. Tasked with being moral and spiritual arbiters, clergy endure significant challenges, including continual public scrutiny, constant availability, and persistent ethical complexities. And yet the moral pressures that weigh continually on the clergy do not spring from catastrophe nor disaster; parish priests, for instance, often face conflicts that are more low key but continual.