Sacred Fire

CNLP 817 | Grieving Your Ministry Wounds: Father Ronald Rolheiser and John Mark Comer on Getting Past Bitterness and Giving Your Life and Death Away

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast, 14 July 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 3 min 32 sec in.

John Mark Comer describes stumbling onto this book—Rolheiser's volume on discipleship in the long middle years of life—as a before-and-after moment in his reading life. He says he re-reads it every summer and has bought roughly a hundred copies to give away. He describes how it landed for him in his late thirties as a pastor of a large church who was exhausted and ready to hear its message.

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