Reflections & Research
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July 7, 2020
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.
read moreabout Kenneth Young: There’s a better way to manage pastoral transitionsJuly 7, 2020
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.
read moreabout Dave Odom: What does financial sustainability mean in the midst of inequity?June 23, 2020
Gail Song Bantum: Leaders make space for others
The pastor of Quest Church reflects on her journey into ministry and how pastors must make space for others to flourish.
read moreabout Gail Song Bantum: Leaders make space for othersJune 9, 2020
Churches need to do the work of welcoming others and their stories
Stories are sacred — especially the stories that are undertold and suppressed, says the author in an excerpt from a new book that tells her own story of rediscovering God as a Potawatomi woman.
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