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

Lessons from Galactica

In the revived “Battlestar Galactica” and its spinoff “Caprica,” Jana Riess finds lessons, darker and darkest, on moral leadership.

By Jana Riess Writer and blogger

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Erin Lane: A pirate store, social entrepreneurship, and the church’s future

By Erin S. Lane Writer

As churches fret over institutional decline, they forget to listen to the needs of their local communities and respond with entrepreneurial (and lavish) solutions.

Tim Conder: Leadership, love of context, and ridiculous beverages

By Tim Conder

Authenticity requires that we lead appropriately in specific contexts. Integrity demands that we learn to love of places of calling.

Tom Arthur: A flatter pyramid of power

By Tom Arthur Pastor

Francis Asbury is a model for those who follow the founder of their institution.

Ryan Andersen: There are no individual leaders

By Ryan Andersen Lead organizer/executive director, Calgary Alliance for the Common Good

The leaders I talk with speak not of their own work, but of that of communities that make leadership possible (or block it).

Nicole M. Havelka: Emerging adults and the church

By Nicole Havelka Associate conference minister for youth, Iowa UCC

Generational characteristics among emerging adults are not necessarily bad -- unless you are the church and other institutions.

Rachel Anderson: The post-holiday debt hangover

By Rachel Anderson Resident fellow, Center for Public Justice

Christians may or may not have initiated the commercialization of Christmas, but we bear a responsibility to help heal its wounds.

Ken Carter: Which calendar wins?

By Kenneth H. Carter Jr. Bishop, UMC Western North Carolina Conference

Most of us live by multiple, competing visions of time.

2012 Lilly Endowment National

Roger Parrott: Lead like you’ll be there forever

By Roger Parrott President, Belhaven University

No matter where God calls you, act as if it is the only future God has entrusted to you.