A learning resource for Christian leaders and theirRecently published
An international religious order uses a teaching framework based on abundance, practice and peacemaking. Street Psalms offers a seminary, design studio and resources to its partners.
Link to author Cheston Knapp
Married pastors have transformed a vacant strip mall into a community development hub and base for needed services in a St. Louis suburb.
Link to author Valerie Schremp Hahn
As with a garden, so with the church — the remnants at the end of one season enrich growth for new opportunities in the next, writes a Presbyterian pastor.
Link to author McKenna Wallen
The emergence of COVID changed our lives. Professor and researcher Scott Thumma highlights how congregations have changed.
Link to author Leslie Quander Wooldridge
The parable of the sower and modern-day design thinkers challenge us to take risks rather than fear failure, writes an associate director for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity’s Thriving Congregations Coordination Program.
Link to author Sarah E. Forsyth
Leading through change is a unique and crucial skill
Christians should embrace creativity as a way to make space for God and to imagine things beyond their own capabilities, writes a pastor and denominational leader.
Link to author Chris Aho
No longer able to sustain a choral program and facing clergy overload, members of a Maryland congregation now tell the old, old story by leaning into music, their pastor writes.
Link to author McKenna Wallen
If we pay attention, the presence or absence of certain indicators can help us assess the vitality of our faith communities, writes a director of grants for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Victoria Atkinson White
Encountering a sculpture in a public square prompts a church innovator to reflect on the changes in our institutions — and how to react to them.
Link to author Shannon Hopkins
Lawndale Christian Community Church invests in its neighborhood with an “ecosystem” of programs, services and discipleship opportunities intended to help everyone who lives there thrive.
Link to author Alison Bowen
