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15 years ago
This is very, very true. Ministers of most all religions are among the loneliest of the lot. Because confidence is crucial to their social function and because people breed politics (i.e., backstabbing), many feel they cannot have friends in their congregations/parishes/communities/whatever. Too often they are right.
Would it be helpful to create a forum or community site specifically for them? Then they can vent and bond anonymously, or with people far away who don't have conflict of interests with them.