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The back side of the storm: Clergy families in distress

by Marcus N. Tanner, Ph.D., president and CEO, HealingChoice, www.healingchoice.org

It was an unusually calm day for an Easter Sunday morning in Texas. I was a pastor and for the first time in my ministry, I left my pregnant wife and daughter at home before heading to church that morning. Although our family saw the approaching clouds, somehow we thought we would be protected. It was on that day that I was forced to resign.

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