Wholehearted Leadership: Equipping Clergy for Healthy Leadership
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Abstract
NPO Statement: Considering current training for Evangelical clergy, sustained attention to spiritual formation is often missing but essential for pastoral health and healthy, sustainable ministry. Clergy are burning out significantly, as reported by a Lifeway Research Poll that found 100% of 1,500 pastors know colleagues that left the ministry, while 91% of pastors report experiencing burnout.1 The research suggests that seminary does not prepare clergy for the demands of ministry or the practical spiritual needs of their congregations. Clergy struggle to maintain a solid vocational identity rooted in the Trinity amid pastoral duties. Many clergy are isolated from ongoing support and identify the need for sustained formational communities of belonging. They believe understanding their story is critical to healthy ministry. I am ordained in the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). The ECC has eleven conferences across the United States and Canada, each led by conference staff. I will utilize my pastoral experience and connections with conference leaders to enlist clergy participation in the ECC and broader Evangelical context. The MVP/Doctoral Project consists of a two-year curriculum delivered in four webinar/retreat sequences spaced six months apart. This project will incorporate “Three Strand Strong” (3S) groups, consisting of two or three participants from the larger cohort. 3S Groups will commit to staying together for at least five years. There are pre-reading and content-rich webinars. Participants will engage in autobiographical storytelling at experientially and relationally focused retreats. This sequence allows belonging to emerge over multiple touchpoints while allowing participants time to notice how their stories impact their emotional maturity, relationships, and formation in Christ. The Sequence timeline: Webinar 3S Groups meet once in between webinar and retreat Retreat, one month after webinar 3S Groups meet once per month until next webinar Repeat the timeline for the remainder of cohort 1 Bill Gaultiere, "Pastors Under Stress," accessed February 3, 2025, https://www.soulshepherding.org/pastors-under-stress/.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.027 | 0.009 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".