Balswick, Life in a Glass House

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Jack Balswick and Cameron Lee, Life in a Glass House: The Minister’s Family and the Local Congregation. Fuller Seminary Press, 2006.

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Lee and Balswick are experienced professors and established authors in the fields of psychology and family studies. This book focuses on achieving balances amid the unique commitments and demands on ministers’ families.

From the Publisher

It is common knowledge that the minister’s family faces unusual challenges and expectations. Why is this so? What’s so different about a minister’s family? As Cameron Lee and jack Balswick point out, it is not so much that pastor’s families are different from othher families. It is their social context, living under the scrutiny of the larger church ‘family,’ that makes all the difference. This book addresses the dynamics of clergy life and helps people to understand the stresses that often arise in the parish.

About the Author

Cameron Lee is professor of family studies in the Graduate School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He is the author of Beyond Family Values.

Jack O. Balswick (PhD, University of Iowa) is director of marriage and family research and professor of sociology and family development at Fuller Theological Seminary.



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