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Alaina Kleinbeck: Go where there is violence and defy it
Jesus Christ the Liberator confronts violence, and following Christ means we must go and do likewise, writes the director of Duke Youth Academy.
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Warren Kinghorn: Busyness, business and vocation
Christians are called to be busy -- but not in the way that busy Christian leaders might want to believe. The Christian way to be busy is not busyness but business, says the psychiatrist and theologian.
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Patrice L. Fowler-Searcy: You have to listen to the community
A pastor who has served church and community for more than 20 years in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood shares what she has learned about sustaining a ministry of community development.
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Grant Wacker: Billy Graham and Christian humility
The great evangelist’s ministry was marked by personal humility -- but that never meant disparaging his accomplishments.
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Nathan Kirkpatrick: A character called "the leader"
There is a distinction between the role you occupy and the person you are, writes a managing director at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Adam Weber: Talking with God: What to say when you don't know how to pray
Don’t make it complicated; prayer is just talking to God, says a UMC pastor and author of a new book about prayer.
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Cameron Barr: The pastoral vocation in the age of President Trump
Donald Trump may be a different kind of leader, perhaps even a threat to our democracy, but that doesn’t change the nature of the pastoral vocation, says an Iowa pastor. The pastor is the keeper of a space where we stand on a firm foundation.
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Isaac Villegas: Amish wisdom and the calling of grace
A pastor recalls words of wisdom he received early in ministry from an Amish bishop: Extend grace.
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Christopher L. Heuertz: What I've learned from the Enneagram
More than just another personality test, the Enneagram is a sacred map of the soul, writes a Christian activist and contemplative.
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Rick Donlon and Nathan Cook: Calling young physicians to help create a more just health care system
In medicine as in the church, many traditional markers of success are ultimately idols, say leaders of a Christian primary care health network in Memphis. Young doctors “with eyes to see” are called instead to care for the poor.