Leadership means 'pushing people to purpose'

Music connects a diverse community of people in Orange County, California

A church plant in a mostly white county draws upon its unique gifts -- including music from classical and black church traditions -- to attract worshippers and respond to the needs of the community. > Read more

L. Gregory Jones: Metaphors matter The metaphors we use shape our imaginations about ourselves, our work and our organizations. What might we discover if we thought of our organizations as organisms embedded in ecosystems, wonders the executive vice president and provost of Baylor University. > Read more

Dave Odom: Reclaiming the distinctive gifts of a small church Few places in the U.S. support the conditions for small churches to act like big churches. So they have an opportunity to focus on the activities that both foster the particular gifts of the congregation and make a distinctive witness to the community, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.  > Read more

Simangaliso Kumalo: Politics, the church and theological education in South Africa It’s easy to dismiss the church’s political role in countries where political rights are not an issue. But in post-apartheid South Africa, the church and seminary have a critical role to play in sustaining democracy and developing leaders who will transform society, says the president of Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary. > Read more

Gil Rendle: Leadership means 'pushing people to purpose' Leading is not a matter of following a series of linear steps but rather a matter of disturbing the system in the right direction, says a senior vice president of TMF. > Read more

Ken Shigematsu: God is at work We work hard, but we also sleep, because God gives to us, his beloved, while we sleep; we invest, but we also rest, because God is at work while we rest, says the senior pastor of Tenth Church in Vancouver, British Columbia, in this sermon. > Read more