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PersonalPivoting · 4 years
Left the pulpit and retrained as a therapist
Jonah Whitfield · 45 · Nashville, TN
“I didn't lose the calling. I lost the building it came in.”
In short
Fifteen years as a pastor, then a slow loss of belief — and a second career built on the same instinct to sit with people in hard moments.
Hardest part
Telling a congregation that had known my kids since birth.
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