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Essays

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

Jason Byassee: Stephen Hawking and Jesus

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

Both science fiction and Jesus make us ask what the world is for.

Scott Benhase: Obedience as holy listening

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

Faithful action depends on faithful hearing, in communion. And do we ever need that in our individualistic culture.

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Redemption in an image-driven culture

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

The Word can become Digital.

Anthony B. Robinson: Does God take sides?

By Anthony B. Robinson Author and UCC minister

A generation is coming that is sick of our generation-long culture wars. Maybe we can finally give up adjectives in front of churches.

October 11-12, 2010

Louis Weeks: Yes, but are they Christian?

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

A little time in mission work can challenge definitions of what makes for “Christian.”

Congregational concierge

Pastors need to fight the impulse to fulfill congregants’ unrealistic expectations. In order to do that, they must understand that they are players in a number of powerful systems that reward such behavior, writes Nelson Granade.

By Nelson Granade

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Jason Byassee: Zombie institutions or outposts of resurrection?

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

Institutions can be places of resurrection that pulse with the life of God, rather than ones that whiff of the ghoulish undead.

Scott Benhase: Stability seeks God in the ordinary

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

We can never “fix” our organizations. We can work on ourselves by practicing the virtue of stability.

Roger Parrott: An unexamined idea is always a bad idea

By Roger Parrott President, Belhaven University

The second of two posts on how sin, selfishness, or stupidity make leaders want to shield new ideas from the light of day. And what to do about it.