Episode 6
Segment 1: How Can Pastors Commit to Greater Self-Care and Wellness?
Here’s an example of Fr. Richard Rohr’s teaching on transformation through great love or great suffering.
The Urgent/Important Quadrant by Stephen Covey
Here’s the self-care inventory Rhonda and David discuss.
“If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.” Here’s the video of Jim Valvano’s ESPY speech from 1993. And an annotated version if you want to dive deeper.
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Segment 2: What Are Some Tips for Greater Financial Wellbeing?
David introduces the segment with the conventional wisdom of the three subjects we ought not talk about in polite company: politics, religion, and money. We tackled politics in Week One of the podcast. Obviously, religion is on the table most every week. So, naturally, we needed to talk money…
According to the authors of God and Money: How We Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School: “The Bible contains roughly 500 verses on prayer and faith, but well over 2,000 verses on money, and approximately 40% of Jesus’ parables deal with money.”
David says the three financial conversations pastors can have with their congregations that cost the church nothing: housing allowance, accountable reimbursement plan, and coordinating spousal benefits.