'Holy Spokes'

Dave Odom: Your contact list is a leadership development tool Leaders and their staffs need a diverse array of conversation partners to navigate institutional leadership today. Start by introducing your colleagues to your cellphone contacts and Facebook friends, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity. > Read more

Allison Backous Troy: Praying the Jesus Prayer showed me Christ In the midst of a painful health crisis, a simple prayer revealed God's presence not only in the midst of the writer's own suffering, but also in the suffering of others. > Read more

M. Keith Daniel: Pilgrimage as a path to personal and communal transformation Going on a "pilgrimage of pain and hope" in your own city is a spiritual discipline with the power to transform your relationship with a place and its people, writes a pilgrimage participant and leader. > Read more

Laura Everett: Riding my bicycle is a spiritual discipline Biking is much more than just a way to get around, says the executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches. In her new book, "Holy Spokes," she writes about the way that urban cycling has led to an urban spirituality as well. > Read more

Excerpt: 'Holy Spokes' In her new book, "Holy Spokes: The Search for Urban Spirituality on Two Wheels," the executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches writes about how bike riding transformed her relationship with her adopted city of Boston. > Read more

David M. Wilson: Holding up hope for the next Standing Rock

Supporting protestors in North Dakota was an act of solidarity and Christian witness for the conference superintendent of the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference of the United Methodist Church.

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