Our faith community has been through three pastoral transitions in five years and each time we lose more people and the ones who stay are exhausted from trying to hold everything together. We keep saying we're rebuilding but we're really just managing decline and nobody wants to admit that the way we've always done things isn't working anymore.
More people experience this than they realize.
A religious community faces the tension between honoring tradition and adapting to survive, while members grieve what's been lost.
“Where Are You with Religious community and its discontents?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.