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

Mark Chaves: What's the "right" sized staff?

By Mark Chaves Professor of sociology, religion and divinity, Duke University

Can you hire fewer people per worshiper the bigger your congregation is?

Jason Byassee: Graduation and institutions

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

Rare words at commencement: Praise for institutions

Walk with light

Go and do likewise. The story of the Good Samaritan illustrates the demand for professionals and institutions to help people in need, says historian Timothy B. Tyson in a graduation address to UNC social workers.

By Timothy B. Tyson

Jason Byassee: Maudlin disbelief

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

Memo to Reece: Quit reacting to your granddaddy's backwoods Neanderthalism and join us in the task of living in faith for a new day.

Richard Mouw: Prayers: Closeted or otherwise?

By Richard J. Mouw Professor and former president, Fuller Theological Seminary

Sometimes we may be obligated to bring prayer out of the closet.

Michael Jinkins: Reasons for hope in a "culture of disbelief"

By Michael Jinkins Retired president, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Is all faith just projection of our "needs" on the cosmos? Or is our longing for something greater than ourselves a sign of truth?

Jason Byassee: No, NPR, leaders (even popes) don't atone

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

Sylvia Poggioli of NPR described Pope John Paul II as "atoning" for past Christian anti-Judaism with his famous prayer at the Western Wall. Let's choose another verb, shall we?

Mark Chaves: Congregations embrace technology

By Mark Chaves Professor of sociology, religion and divinity, Duke University

The biggest change in congregational life in the past decade? Embrace of technology. And it's not even close.

The worst of all jobs, and yet...

By Martin B. Copenhaver

What makes this crazy work worth doing? A sense of call, says the Rev. Martin B. Copenhaver.

God save us through your institutions

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

Jason Byassee offers three ways to pray about institutions, which he says are necessary for human flourishing and God’s work.