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Interviews

Conversations with fascinating people within the church and in secular settings

Joshua Benton: Putting the social in social media

Finding the right tool isn’t the answer to communicating online. Social media has to have the tenor of human conversation to be effective, says Joshua Benton.

Daniel Howe: What hath God wrought?

You think the Internet is changing things? You should have seen the telegraph. A Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian talks about the lessons we can learn from early-19th-century America.

Mark Kramer: Catalytic philanthropy

Bringing about lasting social change requires harnessing the efforts of the nation’s 1.3 million nonprofits, since none can do it alone.

Margaret Pfeil: Tradition is a living thing

For Margaret Pfeil, an assistant professor of theology at Notre Dame and a member of a Catholic Worker community in South Bend, Dorothy Day is an exemplar of leadership.

Sarah Coakley: Living prayer and leadership

The professor of theology at Cambridge University says silent attention to God is the anchor of leadership.

Marie Fortune: God is trying to get your attention

More than three decades after founding FaithTrust Institute, Marie Fortune retains her passionate belief that religious leaders should be part of the solution to domestic violence.

John Perkins: Empowering communities

Poor neighborhoods usually lack more than money. They lack leaders. John M. Perkins has spent five decades strengthening disenfranchised communities by raising up leaders from an often-overlooked location -- within.

Thomas Tierney: The leadership deficit

As nonprofits grow in number and size, they are challenged to find leaders and managers who have both skills and passion for the work. A new survey shows the gap between demand and supply for nonprofit leaders persists in spite of the economic downturn.

Elizabeth Alexander: ‘I wanted to talk about love’

The inaugural poet describes how she found artistic liberation within the confines of a ceremonial occasion and why the word “Obama” does not appear in her poem.

Jeanne Radak: ‘It’s a ministry of relationships’

The congregation of Broad Street Ministry didn’t fit into any of the Presbytery of Philadelphia's existing categories, so it created a new one, says the Rev. Jeanne Bragdon Radak, a presbytery official.