Topic: Thriving Communities
Brad Kalajainen: A congregation can build without losing a sense of mission
We have always viewed buildings (and now we can speak in the plural) as tools of ministry. Dynamic churches are always short of space.
Wesley Hill: Singles in church
You don’t need a big program to practice hospitality to singles in the church.
Institutional mapping and the pottery town
A map of Seagrove, N.C., shows that it is a thriving community whose potters are bound together by traditioned innovation, the desire to work together and a love of their craft. Do our institutions need maps that show the relationships, ideas and priorities that define us?
Louis B. Weeks: The miracle of thriving congregations
Perhaps the surprising thing is not that there are so few thriving congregations in the US. It’s that there are so many.
Katie Boone: Isolation, mental illness and a thriving community
How a thriving community of faith lives gently with those suffering with mental illness.
Positive deviance and thriving communities
Why should you pay attention to the outliers in your organization who are thriving despite few resources? The story of a Vietnamese village shows why paying attention to positive deviants can create lasting change, even in seemingly impossible situations.
Nicole Havelka: The sweat is worth it
Lessons about transformation, on the yoga mat and off.
Melissa Wiginton: Eyes that lead
Leadership, if it’s about anything, is about noticing what is often overlooked, and then having the courage to speak up about it.
Blessing at work
Do we have a deep sense of blessing in our vocational lives? How might Christian leaders bring blessings to our communities?
Jason Byassee: A “UCC bishop” shows traditioned innovation
Vibrant institutions, thriving community, and traditioned innovation all come together at a church in the increasingly stony ground of New England.
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