Recently a parish in Henderson, Kentucky, announced that it was looking for a Rector and candidly admitted that they had no applicants. People weighed in and offered advice: consult your bishop; don’t use the language – “hire”; change your profile; move to another state – yours isn’t safe; call a Lutheran pastor. I doubt that any of this advice was helpful, and some of it was obtuse. Their post, sadly, was a public acknowledgment of dynamics that parishes are already... Read more