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January 22, 2013

How difficulty nourishes creativity

What are the most burdensome constraints of your work in ministry, and how might you re-imagine them as opportunities for innovation?

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January 18, 2013

Friday's News & Ideas

  • Time to rethink small groups
  • Hamilton @ inaugural prayer service
  • Pope to tweet in Latin
  • Orthodox woman leader
  • Churches on Roe v. Wade
  • Manti Te'o & The Simpsons
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January 17, 2013

Thursday's News & Ideas

  • Tribal churches
  • No-degree seminary
  • One-believer marriages
  • God is a question
  • Big trouble at First Baptist, Hammond
  • To pun or not to pun
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January 17, 2013

David Lose: Rethinking the role of pastor

Pastors shouldn’t be the only ones to interpret Scripture and connect faith and daily life. Their role ought to be to form congregants to do that work themselves.

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January 16, 2013

Wednesday's News & Ideas

  • Partners on climate change
  • Religion & Downton Abbey
  • Religious leaders against gun violence
  • Forgive Lance Armstrong?
  • Ivy education without the debt?
  • Positive procrastination
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January 15, 2013

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • Struggles with religion
  • Wendell Berry on gay marriage
  • Slaying in Alabama
  • View from King's pulpit
  • First Orthodox chief
  • What's with kids these days?
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January 15, 2013

How to frame your institution's story

You’re more likely to capture the attention of key stakeholders if you draw attention to your institution’s vitality through well-chosen details and an acknowledgement that you don’t know how the story ends.

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January 14, 2013

Monday's News & Ideas

  • Campolo on the future church
  • Chittister on guns
  • More on the church's fiscal cliff
  • Flint funeral shooting
  • Kumbaya is not a story
  • Gift of helplessness
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January 11, 2013

Friday's News & Ideas

  • A pastor's life
  • What's a church?
  • Confessional of Oprah
  • Jewish Americans struggling
  • Gay a sin?
  • Island of old age
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January 10, 2013

David Lose: It's time to think differently

The baseball movie “Moneyball” illustrates that the first step to reimagining church is to accurately identify why today’s congregations are struggling. Hint: It’s not declining attendance or giving.

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January 10, 2013

Thursday's News & Ideas

  • Biden panel & faith leaders
  • Vices gone virtual
  • Religion at Oxford
  • Nones holding steady
  • Ditch the evangelical brand?
  • More than happiness
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January 9, 2013

Wednesday's News & Ideas

  • Persecution around the world
  • None means none
  • Weddings at National Cathedral
  • First Atheist, London
  • Time, perfection and good enough
  • Worry that everyone's worried
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January 8, 2013

Lead with stories

Spielberg’s “Lincoln” portrays the former president as a masterful storyteller. Learn how narrative leadership can transform your institution.

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January 8, 2013

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • God is alive & well
  • God is unknowable
  • B-school faith & finance
  • Muhammad biography
  • Pastoral secrets
  • Know the rocks
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January 7, 2013

Monday's News & Ideas

  • Clergy burnout in Charlotte
  • The Abolitionists
  • ND & Irish-Americans
  • UM of the Year: Adam Hamilton
  • MA in Christian Leadership
  • Flannery O'Connor & epiphanies
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