Resurrection love: Caring for bodies this Easter
A story about a hands-on ministry to the sick reflects the love of Jesus. But even in a novel, the realities of such care are challenging, writes a spiritual director and retreat leader.
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Mindful mentoring can help develop leaders
Studies show that while mentoring can make a difference, especially for women and people of color, mentoring alone is not enough. A white male administrator shares his ideas about ways leaders can leverage their roles to support and advocate for women and people from marginalized groups.
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Todd Maberry
Managing director, Ormond Center at Duke Divinity School
Lessons from pastors who have left parish ministry
Though the number of pastors leaving parish ministry hasn’t amounted to a “great resignation,” those who have left still offer insight into the current state of the American church.
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G. Jeffrey MacDonald
Journalist and UCC minister
God’s surprise at the farmers market
A pastor who launched a dinner church discovered that making and selling soup was the core — not a sideline — of her ministry.
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Cristin Cooper
Owner, Coop's Soups
What does mentoring look like?
A longtime friend resisted the title “mentor,” but that’s what he was to many, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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David L. Odom
Executive director, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
How to avoid falling off the “stained-glass cliff” when leading a dying church
When young, new or female clergy take over a struggling congregation, they often face the exhausting task of closing the church. A pastor and consultant offers guidance and support from ministers who have been through the experience.
Link to author Diane Kenaston
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Diane Kenaston
Co-founder, Good Friday Collaborative
Do the people on death row deserve joy?
A pastor discovers that preaching to people scheduled to die is an experience of joy — for him and for them.
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Dewey Williams
Pastor, Mt. Bright Missionary Baptist Church
As debates persist about their roles, women increasingly create their own spaces as congregational leaders
With the Southern Baptist Convention recently expelling churches with women pastors, theological debates are continuing over gender roles in leadership.
Link to author Shari Finnell
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Shari Finnell
Journalist
Black churches exercised their ancestral power during the pandemic. What’s next?
Black churches stepped up in the pandemic with information, support, food, testing and vaccines for their congregations and communities. That work needs to continue, writes a pastor and associate director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches.
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Kenneth Young
Pastor and director of external relationships, Massachusetts Council of Churches
Esau McCaulley: ‘I was tired of telling simplistic stories’
In his most recent book, a bestselling author explores both the trauma and the miracle of his family as he makes peace with his father.
‘Beautiful and Terrible Things’
In this excerpt from her new memoir, the Rev. Dr. Amy Butler writes about being “unemployed and disgraced” after leaving the Riverside Church in the City of New York — then finding joy in her new project, a fund to help closing churches invest their remaining assets.
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Amy Butler
Founder, Invested Faith
