Here's a post which, for unknown reasons, I shelved. Someone wrote to me about psychopaths in the ministry. It's a vague term which doesn't mean much I think, but here are two incidents it called to mind -- which I have through conversation with colleagues.
• One minister, in a deacons' meeting, threatened his deacons with a gun, then fired a shot through the vestry ceiling. He survived to continue in ministry in the same Church.• Another minister, in a Church Meeting, stormed over to an elder, gripped him by his jacket lapels, and threw him against a wall. He, too, was forgiven for it.
The most impressive I have heard, though not through colleagues, is of a minister who took an axe and chopped up a pew which a Church family claimed as their own exclusive seating.
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