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We can’t just place Black women in leadership, we need to support them
It is not enough to appoint Black women to leadership and call it progress. Without deep, sustained support, the very systems that claim to celebrate us can also harm us, says a preacher and communications specialist.
Link to author Brittini L. Palmer
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Brittini L. Palmer
Writer and preacher
Jerusha Neal: Walter Brueggemann understood the task of preaching
The giant of biblical studies left a long legacy impacting the way many preachers interpret the biblical text for their own contexts every week.
‘Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry’
In this excerpt, Beth Allison Barr follows a mother and daughter who both participated in ministry, but only one worked formally as a pastor.
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Beth Allison Barr
Professor and author
How do you care for federal workers losing their livelihoods and vocations?
Soup, a reserve fund and protests — these are some ways that a church in Atlanta is responding to families reliant on jobs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Link to author David Lewicki
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David Lewicki
Co-pastor, North Decatur Presbyterian Church
The hard and surprisingly hopeful lessons for churches five years after COVID
Pastors share what they’ve learned about their congregations, about the work of the church and about themselves five years after the pandemic forced most to close their doors.
Link to author Edie Gross
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Edie Gross
Journalist
Trusting the winds of God in leadership
Winds offer both assistance and resistance. Being open to them as direction from God can inform how we lead, writes a Chicago pastor.
Link to author Frazlier L. Pope III
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Frazlier L. Pope III
Executive pastor, Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church
Mariann Edgar Budde’s national prayer service homily falls within the prophetic tradition
The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington preached to a nation at a crossroads with a call to faithful witness, writes a director of programs and grants for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Mycal X. Brickhouse
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Mycal X. Brickhouse
Director of programs and grants, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Is your church ready when things go right?
Congregations and their leaders are often conditioned for problems. A North Carolina pastor suggests that they also prepare for success.
Link to author Bankole Akinbinu
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Bankole Akinbinu
Senior Pastor, Baptist Grove Church
An alternative to despair
In a season that can feel laden with moral panic and conscious apathy complicated by the illusion of innocence, two pastors invoke hope, courage and a commitment to justice as paths to transformation.
Jamar A. Boyd II
Jason D. Thompson
Jim Singleton: Why is it important to be an attentive leader?
Paying attention is the key to so many of the challenges in ministry, says a pastor and teacher.
