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Essays

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

Jessica Bratt: We're increasingly religiously illiterate. So what?

By Jessica Bratt Ph.D. candidate, Vanderbilt University

While we grow more ignorant of our own and our neighbors' faith, Starbucks proclaims, “Take Comfort in Rituals.”

Jason Byassee: Why haven't they left?

By Jason Byassee Senior minister, Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, Toronto

The Episcopal Church of Sudan tends toward conservative positions on Anglican hot-button issues. So why haven't they left the communion?

Anthony B. Robinson: Second thoughts on mission statements

By Anthony B. Robinson Author and UCC minister

Don’t use a mission-writing process to avoid the hard work of responding to the new thing God is calling you to do right now.

Pastor as leader

By David A. Davis

David A. Davis decides to spend his sabbatical learning about leadership and offers lessons from that immersion in a different world.

Jane Austen wrote the book of Ruth, and other truths I've learned in my first year of Tweeting the Bible

Jana Riess set out a year ago to tweet the Bible, reading the Good Book and summarizing it in 140-character-long humorous commentaries. The project has proved to be fun, racy, messy -- and has connected her with a far-flung community.