“You should never work with your spouse.”
“If you want to stay married, you’d better not even think about working together.”
These and other sinister warnings have been given to me and my spouse for years. As of this writing we’ve been married 18 years — including 3 years of seminary and 14 years of ordained ministry in the Presbyterian Church (USA). We have had shared ministry for most of this time, and have yet to end up on the steps of the divorce courts.
It’s our hope that this blog will be a forum for reflection and musings on the practice of ministry in partnership.
By “Clergy Couple” we mean spouses/partners who are both engaged in professional ministry as clergy. There is a growing number of clergy couples, and the institutions of our churches are ill-equiped to deal with this reality and to embrace new models of leadership that embody partnership, mutuality, and relatedness.
So let the conversation begin!
