Reflections & Research
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July 21, 2020
Shannon Hopkins: How to lead when things are falling apart
Disruption can be a good thing when it leads to needed change. But it’s hard. Here are the five stages of a healthy pivot when the structures you’ve built no longer work, writes the co-founder of RootedGood.
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Taking a lesson from the seed — find joy
A New York City pastor writes about the tradition of resilience in Black churches and how she finds joy in troubled times.
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A nonprofit works to ‘green’ the Black church
Green The Church encourages African American congregations to commit to an environmental theology that promotes sustainable practices and helps build economic and political change.
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Kenneth Young: There’s a better way to manage pastoral transitions
What if we imagined pastoral transitions as a relay race, in which each leader passes the baton to the next? asks a Baptist pastor.
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