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Thoughtful personal reflections from a variety of perspectives about issues relevant to Christian leaders

Isaac Villegas: Leaders as mothers

Pastors -- and church leaders -- are mothers, because our labor has everything to do with creating space for new life to happen, creating space for the gift of life, for people to be reborn into the God of life.

By Isaac Villegas Pastor and writer

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Planned spontaneity

By Alaina Kleinbeck Associate Executive Director, Coordination Programs

Cultivating opportunities for spontaneity at the institutional level begins with our own openness to being disrupted and our own imagination for the unexpected.

Faith & Leadership receives ACP awards

In the organization’s Best of Class awards, Faith & Leadership’s Call & Response blog received an honorable mention for best online blog.

All in the same boat: A lesson in crisis leadership

By Gretchen E. Ziegenhals Spiritual director and retreat leader

In the midst of a storm, sometimes you need leadership from a whole bunch of people, all doing what they do best.

Telling today’s resurrection stories

By Alaina Kleinbeck Associate Executive Director, Coordination Programs

Are you an institutional leader who sings a requiem or a resurrection song?

Navigating institutional inflection points

By Nathan Kirkpatrick Principal, Saison Consulting, LLC

Leaders can make the most of those moments when the curve of an institution’s life shifts or changes. These are moments to shed worn-out patterns and establish new trajectories.

Cheryl M. Lawrence: A good death

Carr UMC's new pastor arrived fresh out of divinity school, filled with passion and impatience. But her real ministry, she soon discovered, would be to help the church give up its life for the sake of the gospel.

By Cheryl M. Lawrence United Methodist pastor

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When disruption comes to church

Leaders in mainline Protestantism need to look beyond the stereotypical congregation to envision new ways of gathering as God's people.

Kenneth H. Carter Jr. L. Gregory Jones Susan Pendleton Jones

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C. Kavin Rowe: Our most significant experiences are in institutions

By C. Kavin Rowe Vice dean for faculty, Duke Divinity School

Andy Crouch’s recent book on power helps us understand that institutions are where Christians become Christians. And leaders, those in power, are the ones who shape institutional life.

Mel Baars: Room for all of us

It is in military chaplaincy, perhaps more than anywhere else in the religious world, that people from every theological background are thrown together and forced to find a way forward, an Army chaplain says.

By Mel Baars O'Malley U.S. Army chaplain

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