Boundary Leadership: a Video-Based Small Group Curriculum
BOUNDARY LEADERSHIP AT EMORY The past three years of course work and research in the Emory University community have deeply shaped my view of how community is formed and how Continue Reading
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A Matter of Life and Death: How Eulogists Inform and Influence Homegoings
Introduction My brother Eric was the oldest of eight children. Considered one of the smartest boys in our county, he skipped two grades in school and graduated early. Attending Continue Reading
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The Stained Glass Project: Revitalization Through Racial Reconciliation
Introduction Why Stained Glass? Other than a steeple adorned with a cross, there is no other clearer indicator of a “church” than stained glass windows. Ironically, stained glass serves as Continue Reading
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The Power of Mourning: Creating Spaces of Vulnerability for Black Clergywomen to Lament & Holler
For years, I have followed the career of Dr. Miranda Bailey on ABC’s medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy. I have always been amazed by her intelligence, her leadership, her work ethic, Continue Reading
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resilien·city: a resurrected, resilient community
a pastor’s vision for transforming a dying church into a resurrected, resilient community When I first came to Old West Church from Georgia, I was told it was a Continue Reading
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Reading the Bible with Rembrandt: Exploring Interpretation through Art
“When Mary is greeted by the angel Gabriel, where is she and what is she doing? How do you imagine her?” I posed these questions to the students, after we had Continue Reading
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The Year of Mark: How a Year with the Bible’s Oldest Gospel Changed Westfield Church
“For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for It is the Power of God unto Salvation to every one that believeth,” the Reverend Baxter began, as he Continue Reading
Ecosystem Theory & Boundary Leadership
It is the contention of this study that many churches in North America are existentially threatened due to their loss of a viable role within the changing social and economic Continue Reading
Sabbath Rest: A Theological Response to Self-Care for African American Clergy
Introduction On Saturday, March 30, 2019, the San Francisco Bay Area faith community and the community-at-large suffered a tremendous loss. At 7 pm that evening, the Very Reverend James V. Continue Reading
DigiVangelism: Sharing Faith on Digital Platforms
The age of the printing press is gone and the world is not likely to return to an era where formative information was primarily consumed via printed text. No. Today, people Continue Reading
Dear Freedom Church,
Dear Freedom Church, What are you doing in the way of Freedom today? I was raised in the AME Zion Church and know I benefited greatly from the support my Continue Reading
Campus Ministry Sustained
Today’s Class Will Meet on Zoom What the New Arms Race in Higher Education Means Believe me, before I entered the doctor of ministry program at Emory’s Candler School of Theology Continue Reading
Preaching for Vision Casting
Project Introduction In the summer of 2017, I began my ministry as the Senior Pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Wheaton. One of my initial tasks was to sit down Continue Reading
Mama Tried: An Introduction to On Intentional Modeling
Believed to be somewhat autobiographical, Mama Tried offers Merle Haggard’s lament at the pain he caused his mother by his incarceration. Music historians note that Haggard, who did serve a Continue Reading