I'm sorry this information doesn't meet your standards. Doing survey's on pastors is not as exciting or money generating as doing survey's on tech engineers so yes, the info may be dated, but doubt the pastoral situation has improved over the past seven years. But I'm glad for you that wherever you're employed you…

Here are some statics then, an article from the NYT and an article from FaithStreet. Make what you want from them. www.intothyword.org/apps/articles/?articleid=36562

I was 25 years in the ministry and am retired and still have association with the ministry. I think I have a fair read on the situation.

Don't know where they got the info about ministers, but I know a plenty and from what they tell me, their job is anything but satisfying. It's like being a dog at a whistlers' convention. Dysfunctional church members in positions of power hounding you over dumb shit, making their problems yours. That's not to say…

AA has a bumper sticker saying about fighting the urge to drink: "This, too, shall pass."

Would have been great if the video had been edited to cut to the chase instead of having to wade through these two yahoos listening to themselves talk.

Is this the same stuff "mature" women use in their hair, that steel bluing they get from the hair dresser?

I'm a dog person. Over a period of 13 months I lost three of my pets, one had to be put down and the other two died in my arms. While you move on to greet other pets into your lives, you never get over missing those who have gone to that great big chewie in the sky. Thanks so much for this article. It was hard to…

Also results in flaccidity... which is not a benefit.

But it says to put two in a bowl. Now I'm confused.

Tin snips, a pair of gloves and lots of patience.

Until 2009, Petro-Canada was a crown corporation. Now it is 60% owned by Suncor and 40% owned by the People's Republic of Canuckistan. A true example of how capitalism and socialism can work together... or not.

Every marriage should come with one of these.

Sex...what you do before you get married.

Not since I've had kids. Now they tuck me in at night.

Who needs virtual reality when I get reality reality when I go home at night.

Worked for me. I put a paper bag over my mother-in-law's head and crumpled it up. Now she won't come around any more...and my wife and kids have left, too.

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Says it all:

Tried this with a newspaper that doesn't allow you to read some articles unless you subscribe. Worked like a charm.