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L. Roger Owens: Leading without agendas
A professor of spirituality and ministry discovers that trust grows when leaders notice and release their own agendas.
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Alaina Kleinbeck: Christian accountability in a #MeToo world
Members of the media industry have shared their stories and demanded an end to systems that perpetuate sexual assault and harassment. The church has secrets, too, and must change, writes the director of Duke Youth Academy.
Billy Graham: His life and legacy
“America’s pastor,” who was an adviser to presidents and preached the gospel to millions across the globe, died Feb. 21, 2018, at age 99. This resource page gathers Faith & Leadership essays about the great evangelist and his wife.
With singers from PCUSA congregations across Rochester, Urban Presbyterians Together holds a joint choir concert in October 2015 at Downtown United Presbyterian Church. Photos courtesy of Riverside Neighbors
A city's PCUSA churches band together in the face of ongoing decline
A decade ago, two Rochester, New York, pastors wondered: What would happen if the city’s PCUSA congregations moved into an uncertain future together, instead of separately and alone? The answer: Life, death and resurrection.
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Derek Kubilus: Transforming guns from objects of evil to tools of love
The fear that drives the acquisition of weapons has tainted them, and we are called to put them down, writes a United Methodist pastor.
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L. Gregory Jones: Embrace the wilderness
In this time of disorientation in our culture, we must rediscover the beauty, truth and goodness of God. We can do this through extravagant love, imaginative storytelling, paying attention to awe and relentlessly reminding people of God’s hope for the world, writes the theologian.
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Scott Benhase: 'Done and Left Undone: Grace in the Meantime of Ministry'
In his new book, an Episcopal bishop offers an alternative approach to pastoral leadership, rooted in a deep knowledge of self and the Benedictine values of stability, obedience and conversion.
Can These Bones: A Faith & Leadership podcast
This Faith & Leadership podcast asks a fresh set of questions about leadership and the future of the church. The Rev. Bill Lamar and the Rev. Laura Everett talk with people of faith inside and outside the church -- conversations that breathe life into leaders struggling in their own valley of dry bones.
Southerners on New Ground (SONG) celebrated its campaign to bail out black women from the Durham, N.C., jail in August 2017. Photo courtesy of SONG
Chalice Overy: Helping bail black women out of jail is the work of the Spirit
When she was asked to help bail women out of a local detention center, a minister was at first surprised. But, she writes, she shouldn’t have been.
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Gordon T. Smith: Power is the capacity to do what needs doing
A Canadian university president and author of a book on institutional leadership reflects in an interview on what it takes to guide a thriving organization.