Supporting female clergy during Women’s History Month and beyond
Much needs to be done to ensure that women and their work are respected, including within the church, writes a communications specialist with Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Movement chaplains offer specialized support for activists
Grounded in grassroots traditions, these chaplains are helping advocates for justice across the country access community resources and receive spiritual care.
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Leslie Quander Wooldridge
Journalist
Richard Lischer: What’s the secret to spiritual memoir? Honesty.
A true story about the life of faith includes the messiness, failures and griefs of human experience. It also offers hope, says the professor emeritus and author of a new book about spiritual memoir.
Bivocational ministry can’t become an excuse to underpay our ministers
Bivocational ministry might become more common in the future, but we can’t let that trend include exploitation and financial insecurity, says an author.
Link to author Melissa Florer-Bixler
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Melissa Florer-Bixler
Pastor, Raleigh Mennonite Church
Anne Blue Wills: Ruth Bell Graham and her ‘odd cross to bear’
In the first scholarly biography of Billy Graham’s wife, Ruth, the author argues that she was a powerful force in evangelicalism even as she conformed to the conservative model of women as wives and mothers.
Kelly Latimore: ‘What is our church art for?’
Iconographer Kelly Latimore creates art that uses a traditional style to depict contemporary people and, he hopes, to bring people together.
Daniel J. Bernardo: Interim leaders aren’t just placeholders
Too often, interim leaders are expected to tread water while an institution searches for a replacement. That’s an important opportunity lost, both for the person and for the organization, says the author of a book on interim leadership in higher education.
Leading joyfully and being led by joy
‘Balcony time’ can help us recognize what brings joy to our work and how to prioritize it, writes the managing director of grants at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Victoria Atkinson White
Managing director, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Bivocationalism has historical roots — and modern benefits
As church size declines, more pastors pursue second (and even third) careers for economic or personal reasons. Researchers and practitioners share guidance on how to make it work, advising that letting go of the stigma can be a first step.
Link to author Leslie Quander Wooldridge
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Leslie Quander Wooldridge
Journalist
Subverting assumptions about age, experience and wisdom
A priest anticipating her last decade in full-time ministry writes about the intentional choice of a mentor who is a generation younger.
Link to author Rhonda Mawhood Lee
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Rhonda Mawhood Lee
Priest and author
Pastors were not prepared for the digital demands of the pandemic. What does that teach us about the next crisis?
Of all the new things they were asked to take on during the pandemic, it was technology work and decision making that pastors felt the least prepared for, according to a two-year study from Texas A&M University.
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Heidi A. Campbell
Professor, Texas A&M University
