Kansas City Faith Blogger Talks Term Limits And Wonders When To Give It Up

Considering that Prez Biden wants to run for Prez again, we take not of a former newsman and faith scribe sharing his perspective about hanging on too long to a vocation.

Here's his perspective along with an apropos juxtaposition . . .

"I don't think term limits -- whether in religious life or in politics -- are always a good idea. But organizations can develop such a resistance to change that it's hard to tell their state from rigor mortis. And unless faith communities or political structures renew themselves with some regularity to meet changing circumstances, they're likely to drift toward irrelevance or, worse, errors based on the weaknesses of autocratic governing systems."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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