"How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace"
In this excerpt from her new book, author Melissa Florer-Bixler writes about the importance of embracing vengeance, anger and having enemies as a Christian practice.
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The opportunity of fruitful fear
How we honor fear’s presence and consider its purpose can shift its role in our lives, writes the director of the Thriving Congregations Coordination Program at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Kelly Ryan
By Kelly Ryan
Director, Thriving Congregations Coordination Program
How to host online meetings with Christian hospitality
Virtual gatherings are here to stay, so let’s host them well, writes a managing director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Gretchen E. Ziegenhals
By Gretchen E. Ziegenhals
Spiritual director and retreat leader
Why storytelling matters
When the church uses storytelling, it becomes a shared space where each person is a part of history, writes a poet and author.
Link to author Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros
By Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros
Writer
A justice network equips participants to live simply, give generously
Through various programs on economic discipleship, the Boston Faith & Justice Network is inspiring Christians to put biblical values into practice, including rethinking how they’re spending their time and money.
Link to author G. Jeffrey MacDonald
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald
Journalist and UCC minister
How we read the Bible as a post-evangelical church
When a pastor and his congregation found that their practice of daily Bible study was not working for them anymore, they adapted their spiritual formation.
Link to author Steve Watson
By Steve Watson
Senior Pastor, Reservoir Church
Singing the life-giving song of exhalation
Korean sea divers exhale before they inhale, modeling a crucial pattern for sustaining the Christian life: exhaling for rest before inhaling for work.
Link to author Gretchen E. Ziegenhals
By Gretchen E. Ziegenhals
Spiritual director and retreat leader
Nuns & Nones brings together religiously unaffiliated young adults and Catholic sisters
A six-month convent residency in California gave a group of millennials a window into communal living and discipline.
Link to author Yonat Shimron
By Yonat Shimron
Journalist
A prayer to begin the day
An ancient prayer helps today’s Christian leaders remember that God is already with us in our work, blessing, guiding and teaching us, writes a managing director at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Gretchen E. Ziegenhals
By Gretchen E. Ziegenhals
Spiritual director and retreat leader
Sister Joanna takes the final step to monastic life
After years of discernment, a young Catholic woman enters the monastery -- and a life of prayer as a cloistered nun.
By Katelyn Ferral
Journalist
Baking as embodied prayer
When the author doesn’t have words for prayer, she pulls out flour and leavening. Her hands transform the ingredients and express to God her lamentation and her hope, her fear and her joy.
Link to author Kendall Vanderslice
By Kendall Vanderslice
Author
Apply to Foundations of Christian Leadership
Join us for Foundations of Christian Leadership in San Antonio, where we will draw on the rich resources of the surrounding community as we imagine and listen together to how God is stirring in our world, in our church and in our lives. Applications are due Friday, August 13, 2021. Session 1 will take place October 25-28, 2021. Session 2 will take place January 18-21, 2022.