How can clergy achieve positive mental health?

How can clergy achieve positive mental health?

A new study of United Methodist clergy in North Carolina has found that certain conditions correspond to both a lower likelihood of depression and anxiety and to higher levels of positive mental health. By promoting these, churches can help their clergy thrive. > Read more

Starsky Wilson: Find your Ferguson Part of the difficult witness for the privileged within the church is to renounce a bit of that privilege and work on behalf of the marginalized, says the co-chair of the Ferguson Commission. > Read more

L. Gregory Jones: Seven tips for cultivating traditioned innovation in leadership teams Each of these tips depends on, and points Christian leaders to, the importance of wisdom and growing in intimacy with God, writes the theologian.  > Read more

Alaina Kleinbeck: Foot washing is about love, not just servanthood Jesus’ intimate moment with his disciples calls us to leadership that manifests and concretizes love, writes the director of Duke Youth Academy. > Read more

Jane Webb Childress: O death, where is thy sting? A meditation on two deaths in Lent The passings four years apart of Pinky the cat and a much-loved mother has the author thinking about death and the meaning of a life. > Read more

Rebecca M. Blank: The teachings of the church are important for me as an effective leader The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison reflects on how Christian practice affects her leadership, and how the church can offer alternative ways of thinking about the market economy. > Read more

Sourcing Innovation Join visual anthropologist and filmmaker Marlon Hall and a community of other Christian leaders for this five-week online course. Explore how to uncover and deeply understand your community's needs through a step by step process of careful listening and observation. Register by May 1 for early bird rates. > Learn more