The ‘Introvert Brand’ Is Taking Over My Life
I wrote a book called “Introverts in the Church,” and now it seems that everything I do has become an introvert punch line.
Adam S. McHugh is the author of Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister, spiritual director, chaplain, speaker, and retreat leader. He has been published in The Washington Post, The Christian Century, RELEVANT Magazine, Psychology Today, and Leadership Journal, among other publications. He is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College and Princeton Theological Seminary. On February 28, 2012 he served as guest chaplain in the U.S. House of Representatives. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
I wrote a book called “Introverts in the Church,” and now it seems that everything I do has become an introvert punch line.
For those with quiet exteriors and noisy interiors, we must clear the internal space and turn down the volume of our inner voices in order to truly listen.
I anticipated and relished those hours. For my extroverted colleagues, the grand silence was a vacation; for me, it was a homecoming.