Tag: Religion and Spirituality
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Faith of teenagers is a reflection
I found the latest edition of the e-newsletter from the Lewis Center for Church Leadership interesting for a couple of reasons. One was a quote from a Kenda Creasy Dean in Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church (Oxford University Press, 2010). She is describing an alternate faith embraced by many…
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Who prays the Lord’s Prayer?
The email took me back to the garden outside the Pater Noster Church in Jerusalem. My friend, Ed Searcy, is facilitating groups in his congregation to study the book “Lord, Teach Us: The Lord’s Prayer and the Christian Life” by Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon. His note to me was to share the first chapter…
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What’s the big deal about leadership? How hard can it be?
No one ever says it out loud but sometimes the question hovers. What really makes leadership such a challenge in these times? I have been making a list. This is what I have so far. Clarity Whether people choose to use the Ron Heifeitz language of adaptive challenge or not, the key observation remains that…
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