Jason Byassee: Rowan Williams’ reckless generosity
God gave Rowan Williams so many gifts, and then punished him by making him Archbishop of Canterbury.
Institutional leadership
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Nick Liao: Reticence on power is a luxury of the powerful
Andy Crouch distinguishes between the way the institutions of the military and the country club talk about power.
Bishop Edward S. Little: Asking the tough questions, doing whatever it takes
Little’s diocese focuses on developing congregations that can answer Jesus’ call through conversion, evangelism and mission.
Jason Byassee: The black church is dead?
No more than the rest of the mainline.
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.
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.