A learning resource for Christian leaders and theirRecently published
For ministers who carry private family pain, shame can be overwhelming. But our difficult lives might make us better clergy, writes a pastor and mother of a child with emotional and behavioral challenges.
Link to author Shaina Ciaccio
As with any significant community change, clergy need to support their congregants through the personal, ethical and social implications of AI, writes a pastor who also directs the Technology, Innovation & Digital Engagement Lab at Union Theological Seminary.
Link to author Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes
Faced with declining attendance and aging membership, rural pastors can invite reflection on congregational history and community needs to adapt for new opportunities.
Link to author Trisha Wheelock
A pastor offers his reflections on pastoral work in the immigrant community and the need for new ecclesiological models for ministry on the margins. In this excerpt, he writes a letter sharing his personal experience as a formerly undocumented immigrant.
Link to author Francisco Zamora Avila
For the first time in 25 years, the median number of people attending worship services in the United States has gone up.
Link to author Shari Finnell
Facing years of deferred maintenance and repair costs, a church in Lexington, Kentucky, looked outward as well as inward to make the best use of its historic space while expanding to meet a pressing local need.
Link to author Kory Wilcoxson
More than a decade after the massacre at Emanuel AME Church, a pastor reflects on what is required for true forgiveness to occur.
Link to author Byron L. Benton
How churches practice welcome in the rural South.
Link to author Claire Brown
To ignore or remain silent about the agentic revolution is to forfeit the ability to shape and speak into the moral framework of a world already being reshaped by agentic intelligence, writes a scholar.
Link to author Heidi A. Campbell
The Forum for Congregational Life will work to facilitate learning among all types of congregations in ways that strengthen and support them.
In this excerpt, a scholar asks, What are the tasks of pastoral care and leadership in the wake of conflict or tension within a community of faith?
Link to author Leanna K. Fuller
