Richard Foss: Tending to the financial strain of ministry
Ministry is diminished when new pastors suffer with large student debt, says ELCA Bishop Rick Foss.
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Charles Hambrick-Stowe: The life cycle of a budget
Think of the budget as the institution’s ecclesiological self-portrait.
Lisa Nichols Hickman: It’s not about you. But it is.
How do we steward an institution's energy – not just its money – for good?
Gannon Sims: Word renovation
Our vocabulary, on matters both institutional and faithful, can become dulled.
Allegra Jordan: Greed on Wall Street and in Uganda
Tim Keller says he's never heard anyone confess to the sin of greed. Why is that?
Tom Arthur: "Good to Great" not so great
The book hasn’t aged well amidst The Great Recession. What of the church plants built in its image?
How to merge two seminaries
Retired Union-PSCE President Louis Weeks shares the lessons he learned from the experience of merging two seminaries in the mid-1990s.
Allegra Jordan: It's time to retire "human capital"
Call your teenage daughter “human capital” and see how she responds.
Sondra Wheeler: Tithing and church membership
A rule requiring tithing for church membership may prove divisive in the community
Tom Arthur: Should church membership depend on tithing?
Rigor is good. A two-tier system that keeps committed participants from joining is not.
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