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
Become a Better Cultural Translator For Preaching
You’re Already Are a Cultural Translator, Whether You Realize It Or Not The preaching moment is an act of cultural translation, and the preacher is a cultural translator, whether they Continue Reading
Addressing Racism for Personal and Community Transformation
Pedagogy and Proclamation for a White Southern Church Addressing the Racists within for Personal and Community Transformation The Place Hobe Sound is quietly nestled between the cities of Stuart Continue Reading
Sabbath as Practice: What Defines How You Spend Your Time?
For most of us, it’s work. Our work schedules dictate when we wake and when we sleep. They define when we make plans for various appointments. When conflicts come up Continue Reading
Hospitality in a Culture of Othering: A Critical Exploration of Multigenerational Community-Building Dialogues in Crumly’s Chapel
A Study Across the Lines: An Exploration in Community Reconciliation in Crumly’s Chapel Serving as pastor in the outskirts of northwest Birmingham, Alabama has radically transformed my appreciation for Continue Reading
Moving Beyond the Walls of the Church: Shifting the Paradigm of Missional Engagement in Rural United Methodist Churches
A workshop leader asked the predictable question to a room full of ministers, “What is the purpose of the church?” One brave person honestly answered, “To survive.” This is Continue Reading
“Where Two or Three Are Gathered”: Prophetically Disrupting the New Religious Marketplace
“Where Two or Three Are Gathered”: Prophetically Disrupting the New Religious Marketplace by Jeremy Battle Church membership in the US has plummeted by over 20% in the last twenty years, Continue Reading
MILLENNIALS AND THE CHURCH: A FOCUS ON RETENTION AND ORGANIC GROWTH
THE PRESSURE TO GROW It is an intimidating time to be the pastor of a church; frightening even. Along with the spiritual responsibility of caring for the souls of Continue Reading
Teaching White Sin, Black Skin: Toward a Christian Antiracism Pedagogy in the Era of Mass Incarceration
By Willie Dwayne Francois III The Problem More than individual acts of discrimination, White racism persists as a form of power that works beneath the consciousness of human subjects[1], regardless Continue Reading
SOUL CONVERSATIONS
Written by Andrea Summers Dedicated to my spiritual friend, Sarah Jackson. She modeled Soul Conversations for me before that’s what they were called. Always guiding me toward God’s transformative Continue Reading