I love my work as a university chaplain. Few other vocations offer the opportunity to embrace church, kingdom and academy at once, and I’m grateful for the chance to serve in such a vibrant vineyard.
The setting can be pastorally challenging this time of year, though. My ordained friends who serve in settings other than the local church say they share this experience as well. The Advent and Christmas season is vocationally bewildering for clergy who lack a year-round congregational ministry.
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