I commend this blog from Carin Ruff. Worth a conversation.
She asks key questions about what it means to be 50ish in a parish today.
What are the 50ish in our parishes really doing?
- Caring for elderly parents, or mourning their loss.
- Confronting their own mortality.
- Having existential crises.
- Changing careers, by choice or necessity (especially after the Great Recession).
- Sometimes struggling to do so. Sometimes discovering a vocation to ministry.
- Reordering their priorities.
- Wondering if it's too late to develop a purpose in life.
- Seeking a community that will support them following a midlife displacement.
- Seeking to form connections they can count on as they age without spouses or children to fill that role.
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