Supporting female clergy during Women’s History Month and beyond
Much needs to be done to ensure that women and their work are respected, including within the church, writes a communications specialist with Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Why leaders need holy friendships
Personal sustainability requires sacred relationships formed in God’s love. A managing director of grants for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity writes about what makes these friendships vital in this adapted excerpt from her new book.
Link to author Victoria Atkinson White
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Victoria Atkinson White
Managing director, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Humbly sustaining the weary with a word, post or reel
Faith leaders have a responsibility to use social media with intentionality and humility, writes the director of grants at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Mycal X. Brickhouse
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Mycal X. Brickhouse
Director of programs and grants, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Pastors are uniquely positioned to help people contemplating suicide
By offering honest talk, a sense of belonging and hope, clergy can help prevent suicides. New research and resources debunk assumptions and point to actions that address this growing problem.
Link to author G. Jeffrey MacDonald
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G. Jeffrey MacDonald
Journalist and UCC minister
The Great Resignation: Are pastors resigning, redefining or reevaluating?
Research continues on the extent of the “great resignation” among clergy. But as stories from ministry leaders show, the last two years have led at least some of them to reconsider how they serve.
Link to author Edie Gross
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Edie Gross
Journalist
Thema Bryant: Churches play a crucial role in providing mental health support and advocating for better policy
An AME elder who is also president-elect of the American Psychological Association talks about the ways churches can make mental health an integral part of ministry.
Our collective future requires apocalyptic leadership
Moving beyond crisis management, leaders need to consider a vision for remaking our world, writes the director of the Thriving in Ministry Coordination Program at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Alaina Kleinbeck
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Alaina Kleinbeck
Director, Thriving in Ministry Coordination Program
'What is the urgency?'
In this pandemic-informed season, churches and their leaders should not feel rushed into decisions that can safely wait for fuller information and deeper discernment, writes a managing director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Victoria Atkinson White
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Victoria Atkinson White
Managing director, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Peer groups for pastors can create a healthy ecosystem of support
A supportive space for pastors where they don’t have to explain their work can be key in preventing isolation in ministry.
Link to author Ruth Perkins Lee
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Ruth Perkins Lee
Director of fellowship gatherings at CBF
Tired of constantly adapting to worship in a pandemic? You’re not alone
Many churches thought that vaccines would pave the way back to normal worship, but new COVID-19 realities are forcing us to keep pivoting.
Link to author Angie Hong
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Angie Hong
Worship leader, writer and speaker
Is it even possible for pastors to practice rest and self-care?
Like many essential workers, pastors are pushed to work very hard for very little. It’s no surprise that so many of us are tired.
Link to author Carrington Moore
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Carrington Moore
Pastor, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
