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

Benjamin McNutt: Giving up my self-image for Lent

Sinking a Jeep into the waters of the Pacific Ocean forces a moment of reckoning for a college student who fancies himself limitless and self-sufficient.

By Benjamin McNutt Writer

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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Writing and reconciliation

The New Monastic author explains why he has time for words, even when he is overwhelmed by the sense that he has no time for them.

By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Assistant director and lecturer, Center for Public Theology & Public Policy, Yale Divinity School

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James Howell: Assembling without Robert's Rules

By James Howell Senior pastor, Myers Park UMC

What majority vote would Jesus ever have won?

Christian Theological Seminary

Lilly Family School of Philanthropy

Lisa Nichols Hickman: Confessions of a mid-Lent crisis

By Lisa Nichols Hickman Associate pastor, Myers Park Presbyterian Church

What to do when a Lenten practice fails.

Michael Jinkins: Intellectual empathy

By Michael Jinkins Retired president, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Intellectual empathy requires creativity and commitment.

Scott Benhase: Bob Morris, Girl Scouts and a culture of fear

By Scott Benhase Vicar, St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church

In a culture of fear, church leaders should help people develop the habits, practices and virtues that correspond with following Jesus.

Prince Raney Rivers: Eddie Long and the dismemberment of history

By Prince Raney Rivers Senior pastor, Union Baptist Church

The black church arose as an affirmation of a people’s dignity over and against the institution of slavery. Eddie Long abandoned that history when he declared himself a king.

Noelle York-Simmons: No hands but ours

An Episcopal priest spends her sabbatical photographing people’s hands as they receive communion and reaffirms her belief that the church is indeed thriving.

By Noelle York-Simmons Senior associate rector, All Saints' Church

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