In Depth:  An older pastor (over retirement age but still in the pastorate)

Dear Editor,

I was saddened by the letters in the June issue of en regarding pastoral care. My wife and I read the original letter in the May en and independently recognised it as a cry from the heart. We did not read it as either a ‘letter of complaint’, nor ‘an attack on a young pastor and his wife’ as has been suggested in these columns. Rather, it seemed to express an increasing problem in some churches.