How can churches do the work of becoming allies for the leaders they call? In belonging to a predominantly white denomination, ELCA members are called to listen and learn from its leaders of color to recognize the assumptions, biases, and harmful actions that result when congregations dont commit to become allies. Authors offer wisdom, ......
In The Holy and the Hybrid: Navigating the Church's Digital Reformation, Ryan M. Panzer helps church leaders develop hybrid ministries through aligning the shared mission of the church with the shared values of our tech-shaped culture. The goal is to build communities that serve as the hands and feet of Christ simultaneously online and offline.
The Art of Leading Change is all about people. We can't do the work God has called us to do without people, but it's those very people that make change difficult and messy. The book offers ten vital perspectives for leading change in churches and ministries. The path to change is never easy, but learning the art of change can improve the journey.
A Guide to Deepen Allyship with Congregational Leaders of Color
In See Me, Believe Me, Rev. Dr. Yolanda Denson-Byers draws from the wisdom and experience she has gained--and the racism she has endured--as a female, Black, and queer pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
The Intersectionality of Race, Leadership, and God
Through conversations and deep attention to the lived experience of leaders, Torrance Jones explores the intersectionality of these three worlds--Black, Christian, and leader--and inspires Black Christians to lead from the context of all that they are.
Prolific author William H. Willimon makes the compelling case that two key pastoral tasks--preaching and leadership--complement, correct, strengthen, and inform one another. Preaching is the distinctive function of pastoral leaders.
Victoria J. Barnett served from 2004-2014 as one of the general editors of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, the English translation series of Bonhoeffer's complete works published by Fortress Press. Since 2004 she has directed the Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
* A comprehensive, practical paradigm for nurturing congregational leadership * Tested in ten years of teaching, ministry, congregational research * Includes specific exercises for self-assessment and implementation
In Sustaining While Disrupting: The Challenge of Congregational Innovation, Frederick Douglas Powe Jr. and Lovett H. Weems Jr. show church leaders how to sustain and strengthen the churches they serve while guiding the critical innovation required to address a context vastly different from the one that current assumptions and behaviors fit.
