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The Theological Book Network supports Majority World scholarship by providing books to seminaries

Theological schools with few resources benefit from a nonprofit’s efforts to provide academically rigorous theological books.

By Sally Hicks Managing director and editor of Faith & Leadership

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David Emmanuel Goatley: Offering hope and help

Pandemic response requires more than words of encouragement for those who are suffering. It requires concrete steps to undo systemic injustices, writes the director of the Office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School.

By David Emmanuel Goatley President, Fuller Theological Seminary

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Do you need full-time clergy to be a vital congregation?

Don’t let the ingrained belief that only churches with full-time pastors can thrive keep you from making the switch to part-time clergy, writes an author who has researched the effects of part-time ministry.

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald Journalist and UCC minister

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How to think about what's next when the future is unclear

COVID-19 presents us with overwhelming daily challenges, but we must also begin to consider what's ahead, writes a managing director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

By Nathan Kirkpatrick Principal, Saison Consulting, LLC

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Alex Shea Will: Leading from the middle

How associate and senior pastors navigate their relationship can benefit both them and their congregations, an associate pastor writes.

By Alex Shea Will Associate Pastor, South Church

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Allison Backous Troy: Cultivating hope in love despite fear

As Eastern Orthodox Easter approaches, a writer reflects on how we may find ways to adorn and anoint and bless the new world in which we live, dark as it is.

By Allison Backous Troy Writer and educator

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Aleta Payne: Easter at the altar of my kitchen table

Worshipping online Easter Sunday was an extraordinary experience filled with joy and grief, writes the associate editor of Faith & Leadership.

By Aleta Payne Senior editor, Faith & Leadership

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Grace Ji-Sun Kim: On being an Asian American woman theologian

What does it mean when your title both empowers and confines you?

By Grace Ji-Sun Kim Professor, Earlham School of Religion

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L. Roger Owens: How can we honor sacred time apart from our sacred spaces?

As the pandemic keeps us from visiting our sanctuaries, a professor of Christian spirituality considers a notion from Abraham Joshua Heschel: “Sabbaths are our great cathedrals.”

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

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Russell Lackey: How to turn a vicious cycle in ministry into a virtuous one

Faced with dwindling student interest in campus ministry, a pastor rebuilt by creating a “virtuous cycle” of opportunities that feed one another.

By Russell Lackey Senior campus pastor, Grand View University

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