What are we rebuilding and why?
Congregations should see with new eyes as they re-envision ministries in a world reshaped by twin pandemics, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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When wringing every moment out of the day still isn’t enough
Reconsidering our relationship with time can move us from a mindset of mastery and control to one of openness, writes a communications specialist with Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Emily Lund
Communications Specialist, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Where is the measuring tape?
COVID has complicated how we determine the scale of our work, but asking key questions can help, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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David L. Odom
Executive director, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Victoria Atkinson White: Your grant writing needs the expert next door
The biggest names are not always the best choices when it comes to a successful grant application. Look locally and talk to the people who know your community and what works in your context.
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Victoria Atkinson White
Managing director, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Susan Beaumont: Leading in an in-between season
The usual tools of leadership aren’t effective during times like the one the church finds itself in now -- those liminal seasons when the path forward isn’t clear, says the author of “How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going.”
Lee Wellington: Faith leaders can help shift the narrative of manufacturing
When faith leaders come together around manufacturing, they can change the perception of what it means to be a maker, says the executive director of the Urban Manufacturing Alliance.
Dave Odom: Deciding what to keep and what to trash
Our desks become heavy-laden with papers and notes when we don’t understand our institutions’ priorities. As we begin a new year, it’s time to discern what’s important.
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David L. Odom
Executive director, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Christian nonprofit builds water systems around the world -- and an effective organization at home
Water Mission had the engineering expertise to become a leader in installing water systems in developing countries around the globe. But just as important, the nonprofit realized, was an active focus on its core values and workplace culture.
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Stephanie Hunt
Journalist
L. Gregory Jones: Holding together networks, hierarchies and power
It’s popular to romanticize networks over against hierarchies. But thinking of the two together invites Christian institutional leaders into a more life-giving and sustainable vision.
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L. Gregory Jones
President, Belmont University
Episode 8: Marty St. George on nurturing organizational culture at JetBlue
In this episode of “Can These Bones,” co-host Laura Everett talks to airline executive Marty St. George about the importance -- and practice -- of instilling shared values across an organization.
Paul A. Baxley: A case for Christian leaders to practice integrative thinking
The more our vision and our imaginations are remade by resurrection, the more we should refuse to accept things as they are and insist on seeking new ways waiting to emerge, writes a Baptist pastor.
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Paul A. Baxley
Executive coordinator, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
