Leadership
Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church
August 29, 2007 Sydney’s retired auxiliary bishop Geoffrey Robinson – a man much esteemed by Australian Catholics for the integrity with which he took on the terrible task of working out a national response to the clerical sexual abuse crisis – has a new book making national and international headlines – and provoking a vitriolic […]
Leadership for Change
REAL CHANGE PASTORAL LEADERS This year’s Annual Conference had as its them “New!” It is a great challenge truly to “make all things new” as Scripture enjoins us to do. Brad Spencer from Canterbury gave me a wonderful book on leadership, Real Change Leaders, by Jon R Katzenbach. I have found it a most stimulating […]
Post Enlightenment Church
August 26, 2007 Vanguard or Rearguard? By Harry T. Cook Though viewed by some as a thoroughgoing disaster, the experiment of which I have been a part for two decades, and, in fact, to which I have been a major contributor – an Episcopal congregation in suburban Detroit – is evolving by fits and starts […]
Small Congregations
BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES The majority of United Methodist Churches in North Alabama are small churches and they are in precipitous decline. All indications are that the decline will accelerate over the next decade, despite our efforts, and despite the mandate of Jesus Christ that we, as his disciples, are to go and to grow. By […]
Saying Goodbye
Bringing healthy closure to significant relationships Saying ‘goodbye’ to people you love and have shared life and ministry with is a difficult task. Depending on the circumstances of leaving, it is filled with conflicting emotions, some positive and some negative. It is easy in these situations to think that the best thing to do is […]
Good Old Country Faith
Good Old Country Faith 12 principles for effective ministry in rural parishes Rural ministry has a real attraction: Idyllic settings, close caring communities, unhurried lifestyle. Yet these very advantages have their costs. Isolation, lack of resources, complex relationships. Rural ministry takes place within a culture surprisingly removed from the norms of urban life. There are […]
Transformative Leadership
Rules of Transformative Leadership In previous emails I have noted that we pastors must conceive of ourselves as transformers rather than mere managers. Fidelity to Christ means a willingness to change, to be transformed. Pastor Anthony Robinson helpfully lists ten “rules of leadership” that are particularly applicable for pastors who serve congregations where people are […]
Kids and Grief
From a friend: There’s an excellent resource which is used by the Chaplains at the Childrens Hospital called “Helping Children Grieve”. The author is Theresa M Huntley, The structure of the book is: Part One: Children and Death 1. How Children Understand Death 2. Teaching Children about Death Part Two: Grieving with Children 3. How […]
Megachurches and Modernity
Dining with the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity By Os Guinness (Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI, 1993) Dining with the Devil is about the church growth movement and how its approaches often make value choices that are problematic for Christianity. This is not a list of superficial complaints about matters of style, […]
Leadership is About Change
Lovett Weems has written a helpful book on leading change in the local church — Lovett H. Weems, Jr., Take the Next Step: Leading Lasting Change in the Church (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003). Over the next few weeks, I will focus on some of his insights that are of relevance to pastoral leadership. Here are […]
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