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Debora Jackson: How my grandmother's story helped me lead as an African-American woman
The standard leadership literature was useful, but hearing stories about her grandmother and other family members helped a denominational leader truly find her voice and sense of self.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Remembering my mentor and friend, Ann Atwater
Ann Atwater was a working-class black woman who in the 1970s partnered with a KKK leader to integrate schools in Durham, North Carolina. She was also a community leader who taught others how to build beloved community, writes the New Monastic author.
Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: Kayakers and leaders need good form, balance and courage
A summer kayaking adventure illustrates that the skills needed for successful paddling work in Christian institutions as well, writes a managing director at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Deanna Thompson: I thought digital presence was a poor substitute for embodied presence. Then I got cancer.
Her experience with serious illness convinced a theologian that the virtual body of Christ can make a real difference in a hurting world.
Peter A. Kerr: Leaders as lawgivers
Christian leaders should create good laws because they love their people, writes a professor of leadership and communications at Southeastern University.
Victoria Atkinson White: Duct tape signals the need for innovation
What items in your institution are being held together with literal or metaphorical duct tape? What brokenness are you hiding that needs to be fixed? wonders a managing director at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
M. Brandon Winstead: Three ways forward toward racial healing
A white youth pastor says it’s important to go beyond diversity when leading youth in the work of racial repair. Admitting failure, fostering careful listening, and paying attention to the local context are all important parts of the process, he writes.
