tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761538946854485154.post7741847145616165377..comments2024-03-11T03:02:29.875-06:00Comments on Simple Massing Priest: The labourer is worthy of his hireMalcolm+http://www.blogger.com/profile/08469936715413110334noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761538946854485154.post-56137844471177398562009-03-03T11:51:00.000-06:002009-03-03T11:51:00.000-06:00I'd be interested, Anonymous, to know what exactly...I'd be interested, Anonymous, to know what exactly you find distatsteful about it.<BR/><BR/>Is it the idea of performance based compensation?<BR/><BR/>I have to admit, I'm not sure I even agree with the idea I've laid out here. I just know that stipend discussions have a tendency to get glossed over in parishes, and scales of minimums very quickly become scales of maximums.<BR/><BR/>The Church, it seems to me, should be a model of labour relations. Yet our overall approach to stipends (and to salaries for other staff) tends to belie that.Malcolm+https://www.blogger.com/profile/08469936715413110334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761538946854485154.post-90537371840641865142009-03-03T07:50:00.000-06:002009-03-03T07:50:00.000-06:00As a parish priest, I must say that I find this wh...As a parish priest, I must say that I find this whole conversation to be distasteful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761538946854485154.post-47679313409616276362009-02-15T11:43:00.000-06:002009-02-15T11:43:00.000-06:00Oddly enough the task force on clergy compensation...Oddly enough the task force on clergy compensation in the Diocese of Spokane is working on something along those lines. Because we are such a rural diocese, many of our parishes are served by locally ordained non-stipendiary tentmaker priests. For them we are suggesting a package of appropriate benefits. For the full time clergy we are suggesting a single minimum adjusted annually for cost of living regardless of years in service or size of congregation. It gets a little more complicated after that and we've got more work to do before submitting a final report to the bishop and convention.<BR/>CPCountry Parsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02727241474360657192noreply@blogger.com