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After the recent tragedy at Michigan State University, a nearby congregation moved quickly and strategically to contact faculty, staff and students, provide comfort dogs to the grieving, and gather and pray, writes the pastor.
Link to author A. Trevor Sutton
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.
Link to author Emily Lund
Institutions, like individuals, might try intentionally practicing “unusual kindness,” writes a director of programs and grants at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Mycal X. Brickhouse
Howard Thurman lived a life full of mentors and mentorship, says the author of a new book in this excerpt.
Link to author Lerita Coleman Brown
Five questions centered on mission and vision can help organizational leaders find clarity about the sustainability of their work, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author David L. Odom
In the strange overlap between pandemic and not-quite-post-pandemic worlds, Christian leaders have had to find ways to continuously adapt.
A group of researchers found that feeling God’s presence was key to pastors’ avoiding exhaustion in the pandemic.
In the first scholarly biography of Billy Graham’s wife, Ruth, the author argues that she was a powerful force in evangelicalism even as she conformed to the conservative model of women as wives and mothers.
The stars remain a reliable guide to what’s ahead, even when old road maps don’t accurately reflect conditions on the ground, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author David L. Odom
Different structures of belonging are emerging on the edge of Christendom to nourish the life of faith, says the author of a recent book.
Link to author Dustin D. Benac
An interfaith space at Virginia Commonwealth University uses asset-based community development to focus on the strengths and interests of the students who walk through its doors rather than telling them what they need.
Link to author Edie Gross
