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Spiritual practices and Christian leadership. “You can’t just preach it,” says Jim Wallis, of Sojourners magazine. Wallis and others say daily prayer, Scripture reading and other disciplines give them strength and passion for living the gospel as individuals and in community.
As a black woman in ministry, the Rev. Cynthia Hale has faced doubters throughout her career. But today she is the founder and spiritual leader of a 5,100-member Georgia church.
The former chaplain of the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., takes a job as rector in a small parish in her home state. For the Rev. Catherine Powell, the important thing about leadership is not the prestige of the institution, but whether she is changing lives.
Maybe faith’s not about being certain. Maybe it never was, says Samuel Wells.