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The founder of the Alban Institute, who died May 5, led a 40-year crusade to encourage the church to recognize the significance of congregations.
Like the storm-cellar vigils of his childhood in West Texas, Pentecost is wild and unpredictable, always hard and most always scary, a pastor says. We don’t know what might happen, but we know we’ll be changed.
Leading change requires understanding a community’s system for relating and behaving -- and understanding your own family system, too.
A mother hosted a party for her son when he turned 18, inviting influential men in his life to help him learn what it means to be a good man -- and a good human. The church must also help young people understand their gifts, challenges and Christian identity.
It’s popular to romanticize networks over against hierarchies. But thinking of the two together invites Christian institutional leaders into a more life-giving and sustainable vision.
The founder of an after-school program learns about the power and beauty of gentleness and what it might bring to the lives of children who are struggling.
A theological educator’s perspective has slowly changed, and he has reframed his career as God’s work on him, in him and through him. He implores other seminary professors to do the same.
Many Christian leaders want to make sure their institutions are using the right technology for ministry. But social media use is also a pastoral issue; social media spaces are places where people experience both joy and pain, writes an associate research scholar at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture.
In a 2002 letter on the occasion of his godson’s baptism, the theologian wishes the boy, not an untroubled life, but a happy life, one in which he grows ever more confident in the faith.
Holy friends help us see the truth about ourselves and our contexts when it’s time to do something new, writes the managing director of grants at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
