How can you discern a new call to service? How can you tell if you're in a (subtly) spiritually abusive situation where your acts of service will lead to a debilitating burnout? Do you do service work or ministry to hide from something?

In this fascinating episode with Meredith Gould about her field guide to Service as a Spiritual Practice called "Deliberate Acts of Kindness", we touch on all these topics and more.

In troubled times, many of us want to help, and should help, but HOW we help and what we decide to do should be entered into with thoughtful consideration, reflection, prayer, and not through any coercion or guilt. Here is a roadmap for that.

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