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.
They run church-based institutions but don’t go on Sundays. Why is that? What’s it mean?
One vibrant institution, 800-year old Cambridge University, births another, Scriptural Reasoning.
What good do denominations do? What would be lost if they were gone?
Trustees ought to guide, guard, govern, goad, give, and then git gone.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
AME founder Richard Allen saw in the 1793 yellow fever epidemic an opportunity to help his fellow citizens and to advocate for equality, writes Rochester Institute of Technology history professor Richard Newman.