C. Kavin Rowe: Listening well
Flourishing institutions require leaders who know how to listen well, which demands the ability to pay active attention while avoiding distraction and to relate what is being said to its context.
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John Witte Jr.: Religious views should be welcomed in our public life
Religion should be part of our political and legal conversation, says a law and religion scholar. Yes, it can make politics and lawmaking more complicated and contested, but also more realistic.
Lisa Nichols Hickman: The ministry of 'Why?'
Two scriptural resources for fielding the hardest, most important question.
Ed Moore: The nature of crosses
Thoughts on choice, discipleship and American violence in the wake of the Aurora, Colorado, shootings.
Wesley Hill: God of the messy
Raymond J. Nogar was a mid-20th century philosopher of science. He wasn't a bad lay theologian either.
Sam Laurent: Peanuts, Cracker Jacks and the game
Writers often compare baseball parks to cathedrals, but that misses the real point: the game. And so it is with worship, writes a theologian and baseball fan.
Mark Ralls: A conspiracy of ravens, and other stories
Tales of human saints and saintly animals aren’t just legends of ancient heroes but rather a vision of shalom, writes the senior minister of Centenary United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Christopher A. Beeley: Constant is the call for leadership
Leadership has been a great need in every age of the church, a new challenge in every generation. For the basics of how to do it well, look to the wisdom of the early church, says the Yale patristics scholar.
James Howell: Lessons in disappointment
Disappointment can be debilitating. But it can also teach us about Christian witness.
C. Kavin Rowe: Cultivating resilience in Christ-shaped leaders
Resilience in the Christian sense is not toughness. It is a lived hope, a way to keep getting up again that has its roots in God’s permanent faithfulness.