Campuses of the kingdom
Thriving institutions that serve the reign of God can pop up in the most unexpected places, as Jason Byassee discovered when he looked at two schools, as different from one another as imaginable.
Institutional leadership
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Robert Wilken: Ordered from the beginning
The church didn’t spring up as a group of individuals who happened to band together, says historian Robert Louis Wilken. It was from the start an ordered community, with leaders and offices and structures that have allowed it to endure.
Melissa Wiginton: Christian institutional leaders who ditch church
They run church-based institutions but don’t go on Sundays. Why is that? What’s it mean?
Jason Byassee: Scriptural Reasoning and awe in another faith's house
One vibrant institution, 800-year old Cambridge University, births another, Scriptural Reasoning.
Jason Byassee: The end of denominations?
What good do denominations do? What would be lost if they were gone?
John W. Kuykendall: How to be a good trustee
Trustees ought to guide, guard, govern, goad, give, and then git gone.
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Tough love
Leading with the rod and staff. Wilson Gunn, general presbyter in Washington, D.C., has earned a reputation as a straight shooter with a sense of humor.
Mark Gornik: I'm a believer in institutions
The founder of City Seminary came to New York to plant a church and ended up studying the city’s African churches. It gave him a new way of seeing Christianity.
Steve Moore: The bully in the organization
Christian institutions have never needed more dynamic and faithful leaders than they need now. We cannot afford to hire a bully; or if we do to fail to stand up to her or him.
Brian Blount: Focusing on relationships eases transition
How does a leader change jobs well? The president of Union-PSCE talks about adjusting to his role, the connections between ministry and administration, and students as the impetus for innovation.