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Assessing Signs of Burnout Among Recently Ordained Stipendiary Anglican Curates In England
No full textThis study examines the responses of 253 recently ordained stipendiary Anglican curates in the Church of England to the Francis Burnout Inventory during their second year in ministry. The data confirm the internal consistency reliability among recently ordained clergy of the scales proposed by this measure: Scale of Emotional Exhaustion in Ministry, and Satisfaction in Ministry Scale. While positive affect is high, with 90% agreeing with the item that they gain a lot of satisfaction from fulfilling their ministry roles, negative affect is also uncomfortably high, with 35% agreeing with the item that they feel drained by fulfilling their ministry roles. It is those ordained under the age of forty who experienced the highest levels of emotional exhaustion
Francis Burnout Inventory for people-workers: Initial psychometric testing
No full textRooted in Bradburn’s conceptualization of emotional experience as the interaction of positive and negative affect, Leslie J. Francis developed a model of burnout that served as an alternative to the more ubiquitous Maslach model. The positive and negative affect components of Francis’ burnout model are occupational emotional exhaustion and occupational satisfaction. Francis developed and tested a measure based on this model, the Francis Burnout Inventory (FBI), designed specifically for application among clergy. The strong psychometric properties of this instrument and continued support for its theoretical basis suggest that the FBI could be modified to work among a broader population, in particular those in people-facing occupations. Thus, the instrument developed for and tested in this study is the FBIP, the Francis Burnout Inventory for People-Workers, which consists of two constituent measures, the Scale of Emotional Exhaustion in People-Work (SEEP), and the Satisfaction in People-Work Scale (SIPS). These measures were tested with 1261 participants. The findings indicated favorable psychometric properties and support for the balanced affect model of burnout
Reading the resurrection appearance at the lakeside (John 21: 1-12a) through Jungian lenses of sensing and intuition: perceiving text differently during a Low Weekend conference
No full textThis study forms part of a research project designed to test the SIFT approach to biblical hermeneutics in respect of a wide range of biblical passages. On this occasion, two contrasting approaches to perceiving (a group of eight sensing types and a group of eight intuitive types) were invited to address two questions to John 21: 1-12a: What do you see in this passage? What sparks your imagination in this passage? These two contrasting groups generated characteristically different readings of the same text.
The SIFT approach to biblical hermeneutics is rooted in the reader-perspective school of interpretation and is concerned with identifying the influence of the psychological type profile of the reader on the interpretation of text. The present study adds to a developing body of evidence validating the theory underpinning the SIFT approach and does so by focusing for the first time on the resurrection appearance at the lakeside in John 21
Reimagining ecclesia domestica following a time of pandemic: The John Hull Memorial Lecture, 2023
No full textThe Second Vatican Council helpfully reaffirmed the partnership among three primary agencies in the Christian education and the Christian formation of the young: school, church, and home. The primacy among these three agencies may emerge differently in different social contexts. The argument of the present paper is two-fold. First, it is argued that John Hull was the key influence during the 1970s in trying to shift the primary focus for the Church of England from the school to the local congregation. Second, it is argued that post-pandemic, the primary focus now needs shifting from the local congregation to the home, to the ecclesia domestica
Jesus Calling the First Disciples: Reading Luke’s Account Through the Lenses of Sensing and Intuition
No full textThe Lucan account of Jesus’ calling of the first disciples differs from the dominant and better known Marcan narrative in a number of ways. The Lucan account has been prefaced by an introduction to the person and actions of Jesus and specifically triggered by the miraculous catch of fish that Luke shares with John 21. Drawing on psychological type theory and the SIFT approach to biblical hermeneutics, this study tests the hypothesis that sensing types and intuitive types will see different things in this passage. The theory was tested by inviting a group of 19 clergy and lay members of ministry teams to work in type-alike groups. The data are consistent with the theory
The psychological type and temperament profile of ordinands at Cranmer Hall, Durham, 2008-2016
No full textThis study explores the psychological type and temperament profile of 117 male and 80 female ordinands training at Cranmer Hall, Durham, over a nine-year period alongside earlier studies of Church of England stipendiary clergy. The data confirm the prominence of the Apollonian (NF) Temperament accounting for 41% of male and 54% of female ordinands. Among male ordinands there were preferences for extraversion (58%), intuition (70%), feeling (61%), and judging (60%). Among female ordinands there were preferences for extraversion (56%), intuition (64%), feeling (74%), and judging (74%). The implications of these finding are discussed for the future shape of ministry
Exploring the Challenges and Benefits of Online Worship within Rural Congregations in The Episcopal Church (USA): Listening to Rural Lay People
No full textEmploying data from the Covid-19 & Church-21 Survey that drew responses from 4,536 members of The Episcopal Church (TEC), this study analyses comments made by rural lay people regarding their perceptions of the challenges and benefits of online worship. Challenges identified were few and centred on technological and content limitations. The perceived benefits were numerous and included: convenience and accessibility, availability of other church services, connecting with other communities and congregations, and increased opportunity for faith development. Holy Communion and its place in the online space divided opinion. These data are set alongside findings from surveys of Church of England congregations in the UK and of Christian denominations in the USA. Rural lay people in this study saw maintaining both online and in-person provision as the way forward, provided consideration was given to the impact on younger church members and to the financial implications of a such a hybrid model
The Trickster archetype: education to stupefy
No full textContra the teleological paradigm of the Hero (Chinen, 1993), it is argued that incorporating an ethic of the Trickster archetype (Bassil-Morozow, 2015) may facilitate greater critical thinking and metacognition within contemporary, neoliberal, Education Studies learning environments in UK Higher Education. Echoing Lewis’ (n.d.) call for an education to stupefy, as well as Bojesen’s (2019) argument for Education Studies as a labour of the negative, the Trickster archetype is proposed as a valuable manner of educational engagement in paradoxical fashion, for it cannot be neatly prescribed. In this manner, the ethos of Trickster practices is presented as one of generativity and ‘releasing the imagination’ (Greene, 2000) to consider radical alternative possibilities from within normative discourse through immanent critique (Antonio, 1981), as opposed to any supposed Archimedean standpoint. It is argued that the Trickster ethic foregrounds contingency over apparent necessity. The Trickster is also, paradoxically, given a concomitant atelic aspiration, linked to Perry’s (1970) linear stages of contextual reasoning, as well as metacognition (Wagener, 2013). The ethical problems and challenge of instantiating a Trickster ethic is also elucidated, with a threat to, and possible repudiation from, those vested in dominant mores
