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\"I'm happy to hear this isn't an M16 and beer festival.\" Photo: Chris Schwarz, The Journal / [Rodney Crowell] ;
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Forced pastoral exits: An empirical study (clergy, lay-clergy conflict, pastoral firings)
Data from the author's 1990 survey of 386 American Protestant pastors is compared with two previous studies and business administration monographs to support the conclusion that contentious individuals or rival power groups within the congregation are major factors leading to forced pastoral exits as much as any pastoral malfeasance. Statistical hypothesis testing reveals that church discipline is a moderately significant factor in reducing forced pastoral exits. Pastors who have served primarily in disciplining churches experience thirty-nine per cent fewer forced exits than those who have not so served. Rates of forced exits among various major Protestant denominations are compared. The study concludes with suggestions for further research as well as hints for pastors on minimizing the potential for forced exits at each stage of their relationships with churches.
Dissertation
COUNTRY POET
Fast forward to 1988 to Crowell's most commercially viable album, \"Diamonds & Dirt,\" which produced five No. 1 songs and put Crowell on the mainstream map of country music. After a brief hiatus from recording, Crowell's 2001 album, \"The Houston Kid,\" proved to be his new era of songwriting and a piece of work he's become proud of. Since 2000, Crowell has released more than 50 songs and six albums, including 2013's duet album, \"Old Yellow Moon,\" with longtime friend and collaborator Emmylou Harris.
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My perspective: Southern comfort; When I found out that my childhood sweetheart is gay, I was delighted. I thought, Wow. I always thought she was exceptional, and now I know she is
My daughter is a wonderful young woman, and she worries about me. When she heard my songs \"I Wish It Would Rain\" and \"Wandering Boy\" -- about two twins, one of whom is gay -- she said, \"Oh, Dad, these are my favorite two songs that you've ever written. But I lie awake nights thinking that people who have bought your records aren't going to get it.\" And I say, \"You know what? People have to discover what they discover in their own way.\" I grew up without buying into that particular frame of mind, I think, because I'm a born writer. I was born with an extra dose of empathy, and it's easy for me to put myself in someone else's place -- maybe not so much their experience but the emotion they feel from rejection. I'm a straight man, but I've always felt like an outsider, an observer. I'm attuned to that inner dialogue that we all have going on inside us. Sometimes it's our private hell, and sometimes it's our private glow, but I just never bought that any of us could pass off judgments about what goes on in another human being's inner dialogue. When I first played these songs for my wife's best friend, who's gay, he was in tears. We talked long about it, and he said to me, \"You're going to reach the gay audience with this,\" and I said, \"Well, I'd love that.\" To me, reaching people -- that's being an artist.
Magazine Article
Southern comfort
My daughter is a wonderful young woman, and she worries about me. When she heard my songs \"I Wish It Would Rain\" and \"Wandering Boy\"-- about two twins, one of whom is gay-- she said, \"Oh, Dad, these are my favorite two songs that you've ever written. But I lie awake nights thinking that people who have bought your records aren't going to get it.\" And I say,
Magazine Article
The Most Personal Stories of All
Thirty-nine years ago, Rodney Crowell left Houston for Nashville to become a songwriter, joining compadres Guy Clark, John Hiatt and Townes Van Zandt in their transformation of what Nashville songwriters, and singer-song...
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