The purpose of this special issue of Mental Health, Religion and Culture was to provide a forum for examples of current research examining work-related psychological health, stress, and burnout among clergy. This collection, comprising six empirical articles and five book reviews, is drawn from researchers in Australia, the UK, and the US. Of the six empirical papers, three studies employed the Maslach Burnout Inventory among samples of clergy in Australia (Miner, 2007a Miner, MH . 2007a. Changes in burnout over the first 12 months in ministry: Links with orientation to ministry. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 10: 9–16. [Taylor & Francis Online] [Google Scholar] , 2007b Miner, MH . 2007b. Burnout in the first year of ministry: Personality and belief style as important predictors. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 10: 17–29. [Taylor & Francis Online] [Google Scholar] ) and the US (Doolittle, 2007 Doolittle, BR . 2007. Burnout and coping among parish-based clergy.. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 10: 31–38. [Taylor & Francis Online] [Google Scholar] ), while the remaining three studies employed a modified form of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (Rutledge & Francis, 2004 Rutledge, CJF and Francis, LJ . 2004. Burnout among male Anglican parochial clergy in England: Testing a modified form of the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 15: 71–93. [Google Scholar] ) especially adapted for use among clergy in the UK (Francis, Turton, & Louden, 2007 Francis, LJ , Turton, DW and Louden, SH . 2007. Dogs, cats and Catholic parochial clergy in England and Wales: Exploring the relationship between companion animals and work-related psychological health.. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 10: 47–60. [Taylor & Francis Online] [Google Scholar] ; Randall, 2007 Randall, KJ . 2007. Examining the relationship between burnout and age among Anglican clergy in England and Wales.. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 10: 39–46. [Taylor & Francis Online] [Google Scholar] ; Turton & Francis, 2007 Turton, DW and Francis, LJ . 2007. The relationship between attitude toward prayer and professional burnout among Anglican parochial clergy in England: Are praying clergy healthier clergy?. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 10: 61–74. [Taylor & Francis Online] [Google Scholar] ). Consistent findings across all six studies indicated a high level of work-related burnout among the samples of clergy, irrespective of religious denomination or country. In combination, this work demonstrated the wide range of matters currently being investigated by researchers as well as the variety of methodologies being employed within the social scientific study of religion and related disciplines focused on clergy work-related psychological health, stress, and burnout.