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Can These Bones

This Faith & Leadership podcast asks a fresh set of questions about leadership and the future of the church. The Rev. Bill Lamar and the Rev. Laura Everett talk with people of faith inside and outside the church -- conversations that breathe life into leaders struggling in their own valley of dry bones.

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Christian Leadership, Pastoral leadership, Health & Well-being, Vocation

Episode 1: Amy Butler on her role as the first woman to lead Riverside Church

In the premiere episode of “Can These Bones,” co-host Bill Lamar talks with Amy Butler, the senior minister of The Riverside Church in the City of New York, about her experience in that historic pulpit.

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Reconciliation, Racial & ethnic, Congregations

Gerardo Marti: Church and the challenge of pluralism

The challenge facing much of the church in the U.S. is the challenge of pluralism, says a sociologist who studies race and religion. Can the church equip itself to engage with an increasingly diverse society?

Woman's hands hold a lit candle

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Vocation, Practices, Renewal, Congregations

Robert Saler: 'Why don't I get a vacation, too?' How to talk about clergy sabbaticals

Reframing the pastoral sabbatical as a journey for the entire congregation can diminish resentment and help make regular periods of renewal a part of the Christian life, writes the director of the Lilly Endowment Clergy Renewal Programs.

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Congregations, Christian Leadership, Pastoral leadership

Allen T. Stanton: Why I hate Wendell Berry

It’s not the renowned writer himself that’s the problem, writes a pastor who grew up in and serves rural communities. But his writing projects an idealized vision of rural life that ignores current realities.

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Arts & Culture, Society, Christian Leadership

Victoria Atkinson White: We need each other

In today’s world, we tend to choose friendships with like-minded people rather than investing in a broad community of “familiar but not intimate” relationships. That narrowing of casual relationships is killing our communities and driving us away from God’s work in the world, writes the managing director of grants for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

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Arts & Culture, Visual arts, Literature

Jessica Brown: Does beauty matter for moral stances?

Beauty isn’t just ornamentation or sentimentality; it provides the life-giving force of warm, appealing graciousness, says a writer.

The Rev. Jes Kast leads worship at A Taste of Heaven at West End Collegiate Church. Photos by Whitney Kidder

Missions & Evangelism, Congregations, New forms of church, Innovation

Soup kitchen-turned-worship service, A Taste of Heaven is a model of ministry 'with' rather than 'to'

On Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a church-run soup kitchen has become ‘A Taste of Heaven,’ with its own innovative worship service and a celebratory meal. It’s what outreach can be when the church listens to those it is trying to reach.

NEWS & IDEAS
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Daily headlines about the church and the world
  • Massive religious realignment?
  • Farminaries
  • Church security workshops
  • Revolution for pontifical universities
  • Excommunicated bishop for China
  • Dad's voice lost
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Formation of leaders

L. Gregory Jones: How to form wise Christian institutional leaders in an uncertain world

Notre Dame students model a life of faith in progress for teens

C. Kavin Rowe: The formation of scriptural imagination

Nathan Kirkpatrick: Instincts, not ideas

New forms of church

Student apartments bring new life to innovative campus ministry

Simple Church blends dinner, worship and enterprise to create a new model

Church has no walls but many doors, accessible to seekers and skeptics

Teen's online church draws young people from around the world

What We Teach

Christian wisdom is nurtured over the course of time in institutions that act as bearers of tradition, laboratories for learning and incubators of leadership, says L. Gregory Jones.

  • Thriving Communities
  • Vibrant Institutions
  • Christ-Shaped Leadership
  • Traditioned Innovation
  • Transformative Leadership
  • Generative Organization
  • Sustainable Design

The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra’s efforts to engage children and the community include building partnerships with non-arts and extended-arts organizations, such as the Oklahoma Aquarium. The TSO and aquarium operate a joint program in which students from area schools visit the aquarium and hear TSO ensembles while learning about marine life.

Arts & Culture, Performing arts, Innovation

Beautiful music -- together

The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra has remade itself by creating a new model of a community-based arts organization that is committed to artistic excellence and community engagement.

Apply now to Foundations of Christian Leadership in Washington, D.C.

Foundations of Christian Leadership brings together emerging leaders from a variety of faith-based organizations as colleagues in an encouraging and collaborative learning environment that meets in two four-day, in-person gatherings. Participants pay only a $150 registration fee and will have the opportunity to apply for a $3,500 grant to support innovative approaches within his or her institution.

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