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Kenneth H. Carter Jr.

Bishop, UMC Western North Carolina Conference

Kenneth H. Carter, Jr. serves as resident bishop of the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church and as bishop in residence and consulting faculty at Duke Divinity School. He formerly served as president of the Council of Bishops of the UMC, as resident bishop of the Florida Conference of the UMC, and as a moderator of the Commission on a Way Forward.

He is author most recently of “Unrelenting Grace: A United Methodist Way of Life” (Abingdon, 2023) and "God Will Make a Way: Spiritual Life and Leadership in a Contested Season" (Abingdon, 2021). He is also the author of two books with Audrey Warren, "Fresh Expressions of People over Property" (Abingdon, 2020) and "Fresh Expressions: A New Kind of Methodist Church" (Abingdon, 2018).

Mainline Protestants and disruptive innovation

Kenneth H. Carter Jr. L. Gregory Jones Susan Pendleton Jones

Mainline Protestants can still have an exciting and life-giving future -- if they learn the lessons of disruptive innovation from the steel industry and other organizations, say three Christian institutional leaders.

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Nicene Creed conversations

The newest season of the “Public Worship and the Christian Life” podcast features three powerful conversations about the Nicene Creed to celebrate the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and the ecumenical Creed that emerged in 325.  

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