Take a few minutes to read this very insightful and incisive essay. Especially if you are a worker in the church (though I think it applies broadly to all who suffer the potential of burnout).
Zwinglius Redivivus
Anti-intellectualism is the religion of the lazy.
Zwinglius Redivivus 
….but it’s in a strange and perverse language of some type…..
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Good sound advice – don’t isolate yourself Jim and be aware of help organisations and retreats (Kiwiland) when modern stress becomes too oppressive. Lots of practical advice for Germans of course but still sensible basic raising awareness that such problems do exist. Interesting though is the concept of ‘burnout’ which is borrowed in the text and only translated once as ‘working too hard’… It was coined in the 70s by a German American, Herbert Freudenberger from a novel by Graham Greene. I’ve always considered it a very american thing to get – I am very well aware of fatigue (syndrome!) and depression which are generally caused by working too hard and coping with modern stress… I think attending conferences is a good thing for academics and pastors alike to keep them in contact with colleagues otherwise it’s all to easy to become isolated, and overworked. I miss the sea. Great therapy.
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