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Preparing to love and serve our neighbors: A worship experience
This worship experience, based on Bible verses that guide the Fondren Apartment Ministry in Houston, Texas, can be used by any group wanting to respond to God’s great love for us.
Tips to support the innovators in your midst
Learn from seasoned leaders and books strategies to identify and nurture talented people and ideas.
Monica A. Coleman: Jesus is here, even for those silenced by depression
In Holy Week, a favorite gospel song reminds the author that God loves even those who cannot cry out in praise, those whom depression has left as silent as stones.
Nathan Kirkpatrick: Tell it again
Some stories need to be told again and again. So it is with the story of Easter, a story that reminds us that we belong to God and that Jesus is out ahead of us, calling us to God’s future, writes a managing director at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Presidents Day in the memory unit, 2016
The music therapist’s Presidents Day quiz stirs something in the nursing home residents, something they recall, and the answers come pouring forth, like responses to a Bible drill.
Dave Odom: The audience comes first
An effective communications strategy begins with knowing your audience -- its demographics, needs and habits -- before figuring out what and how you want to communicate, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Rob Moll: I've stopped being a leadership cynic
Working inside large organizations has made a former journalist lose his cynicism about those in authority. Here are three lessons he’s learned about leadership.
Jacob Paul Breeze: Pray, believe, live -- a rural congregation discovers the gift of liturgy
Everyone knows that a ‘small, country church’ isn’t interested in liturgy or making changes. But a young pastor found otherwise at Shady Grove UMC in Providence, North Carolina.
Ken Evers-Hood: Burning the ships
A Presbyterian pastor writes that he had to face the distance between the person he knows he’s called to be and who he is.
