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Dave Odom: Concealing the past doesn't undo it
Congregations can complicate their present and hobble their future by hiding from their past, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Shelley Best: Dying organizations must transform in order to survive and flourish
In order to pursue its core mission, an organization may have to craft its own path, says the CEO and president of The Conference of Churches in Connecticut.
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Adam Russell Taylor: Pandemics have a lot to teach us about those who lead us
COVID-19 emphasizes the need for ethical, evidence-based and visionary leadership, writes the executive director of Sojourners.
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Laura Everett: How is repairing the church like mending a garment?
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.
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Edgardo Colón-Emeric: Óscar Romero was a shepherd, a martyr, a saint -- and a preacher
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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Stephen Lewis: The willingness to do something different can make all the difference
In a new book, three colleagues share practices they developed and then lived into as they re-envisioned their work. The disciplines are useful to individuals discerning their purpose, to the mentors who walk beside them and to leaders of organizational change.
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Mark Charles: There must be real repentance for the Doctrine of Discovery
The author and speaker addresses the theology and history that informed the exploration of the New World -- and what it means to repent of America’s unjust foundation.
Bungishabaku Katho, founder of the Jeremiah Center for Faith and Society in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photos courtesy of the Issachar Fund
One man's vision of hope, love, forgiveness and peace in a nation ravaged by ethnic conflict
Bungishabaku Katho is building the Jeremiah Center for Faith and Society in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a place to gather Christian leaders and promote reconciliation and restoration.
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Andrew Root: The challenge of being a pastor in a secular age
As we enter a new chapter in the life of the church, an author and professor works to answer the question: "How do we help those who no longer need a God encounter the living God in their lives?"
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Dave Odom: What makes an institution trustworthy?
Predictability and transparency help people know how to do their work and why decisions have been made. And they set the stage to create a sense of agency, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.