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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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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Dave Odom: What does financial sustainability mean in the midst of inequity?
How we measure the investment in organizations can shortchange commitments that different racial, ethnic and cultural communities make to their ministries, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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