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Twelve Christian leaders share their thoughts on how the coronavirus pandemic might affect the financial health and sustainability of American churches.
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The minister and professor of preaching offers a method of dialogue in advance of the coming election.
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Pandemic response requires more than words of encouragement for those who are suffering. It requires concrete steps to undo systemic injustices, writes the director of the Office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School.
Don’t let the ingrained belief that only churches with full-time pastors can thrive keep you from making the switch to part-time clergy, writes an author who has researched the effects of part-time ministry.
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How associate and senior pastors navigate their relationship can benefit both them and their congregations, an associate pastor writes.
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Pastors can be tempted to fill this time of fear with overproductivity. We need to resist that urge.
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Online church offers congregations the ability to continue being church amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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A guide to clothing repair offers a useful discernment process for leaders trying to figure out how to repair a broken church, says a Christian leader who practices textile mending.
Archbishop Óscar Romero on a visit to Rome in 1978. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
On the 40th anniversary of Romero’s assassination, it’s important to remember his message that the whole church is called to be the voice of the voiceless, writes a Duke Divinity School professor and author of a book on the archbishop.
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Leading during a global health crisis requires trust in medical professionals and the courage to love and not fear, say two pastors who cared for a congregant whose life was upended by Ebola.