DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’m the pastor of a medium-sized church (about 500 members), with five other ministers on staff, as well. This summer, while I was on vacation, a church member harshly criticized the staff for not noticing she’d been gone for eight Sundays. This young woman blasted us for this oversight in an extended rant on social media.

In our defense, we don’t take roll, and the weeks she was gone coincided with vacations for many other members and church employees.

Since she had “unfriended” the entire staff, we only heard about this rant when a couple of church members mentioned it and sent us a copy of it. Several other members responded to her post, defending the staff and questioning the wisdom of this venue for criticism. No one else is upset, nor did it cause much of a ripp

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