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

Unemployed, underemployed and overemployed

By Denise Frame Harlan

Although she is officially unemployed, Denise Frame Harlan juggles work as a writer, teacher, tour guide, nanny, fiber artist -- and a mother. Each of her jobs brings her joy, but not much money.

Jesus does not assume scarcity

He proclaims abundance through seemingly reckless gift giving, writes Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove.

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

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Faith on the Avenue

Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia cuts through a diverse swath of the city’s neighborhoods. An ongoing study of the congregations along this historic, eight-and-a-half-mile stretch of road examines the role of religious communities in urban life.

Carol Howard Merritt: Search committees and Google

By Carol Howard Merritt Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Spring City, Tennessee

What happens if someone on a search committee Googles the name of a candidate who has been attacked by a vicious blogger?

Louis Weeks: Can you go home again (and preach)?

By Louis B. Weeks President emeritus, Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education

Is it even possible to thank all the people responsible for teaching us the faith?

John Schmalzbauer: A haven for independent bookstores

By John Schmalzbauer

The Mennonite hub of Newton, Kansas, bristles with religious booksellers at a time when they’re going out of fashion elsewhere.

Jason Byassee: Institutionalized anarchy for Jesus

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

Catholic Worker houses rock. Especially when they’re Protestant.

Penny Edgell: The prescient Ms. Palin

By Penny Edgell Professor, University of Minnesota

The uproar over Palin’s claim of the label “feminism” reminds us that people want space in their faith communities to talk about gender, marriage and family.

Praying for our sisters, singing for our lives

By Sally M. Brower

A participant in a renewal program for Protestant clergy women at a Catholic retreat center shares what it means to be a “woman touched by grace.”

The wisdom of women

By Mary Luke Jones

Ten lessons from women pastors. Sister Mary Luke Jones of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Indiana shares what she learned from spending time with women clergy. Among the lessons: The things that separate Catholics and Protestants are not really that important.