Jason Byassee: University presidents in the Congo
Leaders of two universities in the DRC show us institution-disdainers in the west that our complaints come from a place of privilege.
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John Kuykendall: How to turn around a negative institution?
Some colleges, judicatories, and even denominations seem beset by institutional Legionnaire’s Disease.
Jason Byassee: Gumption and holiness in an infant church
Juan de Dios and the Methodist Church in El Salvador are raising up leaders for their church and society. And for the rest of us.
Jason Byassee: Rowan Williams’ reckless generosity
God gave Rowan Williams so many gifts, and then punished him by making him Archbishop of Canterbury.
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?