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

Andy Rowell: What Liturgical and Free Church leaders can learn from each other.

By Andy Rowell

The recent Catalyst conference on church leadership shows just how desperately the "free" and "liturgical" churches need each other.

Jason Byassee: What can we learn from a medieval king about leadership?

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

St. Wenceslaus was a rare combination for the age of Christendom: a martyr-king. And there is a great deal we can learn from his hagiography.

Steve Moore: The bully in the organization

By Steve Moore

Christian institutions have never needed more dynamic and faithful leaders than they need now. We cannot afford to hire a bully; or if we do to fail to stand up to her or him.

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Carol Howard Merritt: Women get to talk now, too

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

Due to the open world of the web and social networking, it’s getting harder to exclude women's voices from church conferences, even when organizers may wish to.

Os Guinness: Civility in the public square

The co-founder of The Trinity Forum challenges Christians to follow Jesus by becoming champions of civility.

Louis Weeks: Going to church when you don’t have to

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

It is a helpful exercise for leaders to place themselves in the shoes of those who are new to their organizations.

Roger Owens: What does business literature have to do with theology?

By L. Roger Owens Hugh Thomson Kerr Professor of Pastoral Theology, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

We are often tempted to ask which is more Christian: a bottom-up, consensus oriented style of leadership or a top-down, authoritarian one. Maybe that’s the wrong question.

Richard J. Mouw: Advertising the Gospel?

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

To say that there is a legitimate parallel worth exploring between advertising and preaching, evangelism and the like is not automatically to cheapen our efforts to present the Gospel to the larger culture.

Jason Byassee: The banjo lesson

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

Leadership is about providing a space for another to grow into. Witness "The Banjo Player," an old-time musician, and the Carolina Chocolate Drops.