# Roundup: Being prophetic, money, flying padre, stories, Apocalypse

> Younger clergy “are worried about job security — not just about getting paid (which is not always a given) — but whether they can do the job they feel called to do in congregations that don’t want to change … Being prophetic is an attribute we laud in seminary, but it can get you fired in the parish.”

30 July 2012 · News

Canonical: https://insights1.uca.org.au/articles/roundup-being-prophetic-money-flying-padre-stories-apocalypse/

## [Between a rock and a hard place](https://sojo.net/blogs/2012/07/27/between-rock-and-hard-place-todays-church/)

Younger clergy “are worried about job security — not just about getting paid (which is not always a given) — but whether they can do the job they feel called to do in congregations that don’t want to change … Being prophetic is an attribute we laud in seminary, but it can get you fired in the parish.”

## [Future of liberal religion: a counterculture blooms?](https://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/6196/future_of_liberal_religion%3A_a_counterculture_blooms/)

Have desperate ecumenical Protestants now quieted their courageous prophetic voices in exchange for building greater unity with numerically-robust evangelical groups?

## [Money, technology, and the silence of churches](https://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/6217/money%2C_technology%2C_and_the_silence_of_churches%3A_a_conversation_with_susan_thistlethwaite/)

Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite wants to do for money what gays and lesbians have done for sex — within the church, that is. Instead of ignoring this unwelcome subject, she wants to bring it out into the open.

## [Flying padre set to keep flying](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-20/flying-padre-set-to-keep-flying/4143210)

The Uniting Church has reconfirmed its commitment to servicing remote parts of the country, including far west New South Wales, with its flying padres.

## [Neither The Joker nor godlessness drove Batman shooting](https://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/culture/6222/neither_the_joker_nor_godlessness_drove_batman_shooting/)

Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre reminds us that the human being is a teller of stories that aspire to truth. But the key question for men [sic.] is not about their own authorship; “I can only answer the question, ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question, ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’”

## [Apocalypse now and then: our global death wish](https://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/culture/6074/apocalypse_now_and_then%3A_our_global_death_wish/)

It’s almost like we’d rather the world be destroyed, than for it to be as impersonal, as relentless, as it appears.