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What's church got to do with it?

Confession as art. Thousands of people send postcards with their deepest secrets to the website PostSecret.com. But some wonder: Does a postcard truly fulfill the need to confess?

By Ned Barnett Journalist

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Melissa Wiginton: In whose wake do you follow?

By Melissa Wiginton Vice president, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

We always say the church needs gifted young leaders. But so do many of our other institutions. Is a young pastor’s choice for politics a loss for the church? Can a young person serve with integrity as a pastor and a politician?

Tom Arthur: A younger pastor seeks advice from an elder

By Tom Arthur Pastor

Most mainline seminaries prepare pastors for the church as it was decades ago. But what if the prototypical church now is Willow Creek?

Jason Byassee: Invisible, sticky leaders

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

Behind the scenes of every successful organization is someone who does the dirty work and doesn’t mind not getting the credit. Such “glue people” are a little like the Holy Spirit as she works in the church.

Cynthia Weems: A faithful Lord’s Supper is a messy one

By Cynthia Weems Senior pastor, First UMC of Miami

Serving the Lord’s Supper always seems always to result in a mess. And given the nature of our work as leaders, maybe that’s as it should be.

Graham Ford: Tweet-ological discourse

By Graham Ford

How do Christian leaders make sense of the technologies coming at us in waves? Like Karl Barth would do: by attending to what kind of people these new media turn us into.

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Sari Bari

Women in the sex trade in India turn old saris into art through a Word Made Flesh initiative that aims to help them regain their freedom.

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

Rx for layoff survivor sickness

Author and coach David Noer offers five strategies for managers to rebuild morale and regain momentum among the workers who remain after layoffs.

By David Noer Leadership consultant

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Leadership in God's economy

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

In our zero-sum world, becoming great means making someone else small. But Jesus taught that true abundance comes from becoming “the servant of all,” writes Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove.