Strength to Strength

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 book comes up at 22 min 15 sec in.

John Mark Comer cites Arthur Brooks's argument that the more successful someone is in the first half of life, the harder they will likely find success in the second half, because the traits that drove early achievement become liabilities later. Comer says he loves the book and uses its thesis to ask Rolheiser why leaders and pastors may find aging and the shift to passivity especially difficult.

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