There is Eugen Rosenstock - Huessy, who concluded that the three major principalities and powers on the earth were the government, the university, and the church, and he refused employed from all three; Karl Barth, who
finally left the ministry and only visited different churches occasionally because he found it had become too sentimentally pietistic; and Thomas Merton, who finally became a hermit and only rarely assembled with his brothers.
I finally left the ministry.
Not exact matches
Finally, in 2010, I
left the
ministry and stopped being a regular member of the church.
I had a dream like this years ago when I
finally quit fighting being gay (which meant, at the time,
leaving my studies for the
ministry — circa 1979).
Then the day
finally came when, in order to continue on my journey towards spiritual independence, I had to
leave the
ministry and the church.
When I
left the
ministry and the church in 2010, it took me a couple years to somewhat recover and
finally start with all seriousness my own online endeavors.