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Faith-Based Organizing: A Congregational Planning Resource for Addressing Poverty
Faith-Based Organizing: A Congregational Planning Resource for Addressing Poverty presents a faith-based effort to identify what sustains poverty and to organize people to work together to overcome its root causes. The result is collaborative relationships that change systems contributing to poverty. Within this process, new leadership will emerge, relationships will be enriched, and congregations will experience renewed love for people by undergoing transformation.
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Households and Holiness: The Religious Culture of Israelite Women
Households and Holiness provides a clear overview of the religious lives of Israelite women. Carol Meyers stresses the diversity of religious practices in ancient Israel and argues we must examine practices as well as beliefs. The book explores anthropology, archaeological evidence, ethnographic data, and textual sources.
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My Burden Is Light: Making Room for Jesus in Preaching
My Burden Is Light invites preachers to reclaim proclaiming Jesus as the goal of preaching. Satterlee argues that by preaching Jesus's life, death, and resurrection as good news, we address the issues we face. This book is foundational for preaching courses and a balm for preachers needing nourishment and renewal.
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The Art of Leading Change: Ten Perspectives on the Messiness of Ministry
The Art of Leading Change is all about people. We can't do the work God has called us to do without people, but it's those very people that make change difficult and messy. The book offers ten vital perspectives for leading change in churches and ministries. The path to change is never easy, but learning the art of change can improve the journey.
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Turning Ourselves Inside Out: Thriving Christian Communities
Turning Ourselves Inside Out emerges from the Thriving Christian Communities Project started by the authors in 2015. In interviews with thirty-five faith communities, the authors discovered that amid great upheaval, Christ is giving us a new church. This book invites readers to listen to others' experiences and then dig deep into their own and get down to the business of dreaming God's dream and making it real.
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The Storied Church: A Strategy for Congregational Renewal
The Storied Church focuses on story-centered church renewal and is born of a suspicion that the restorative, transformative, life-giving function that stories have for us as individuals may serve communities of faithful people as well. If stories help us survive as human creatures, why can't they help churches survive? This book is a tool to empower pastors and lay leaders to effect revitalizing change in their faith communities. Each chapter includes questions for reflection.
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The Unfolding Gospel: How the Good News Makes Sense of Discipleship, Church, Mission, and Everything Else
Many churches and their leaders are discouraged about the future of the church. John Bowen believes the solution is to be found not in new programs or strategies but in a recovery of theological vision--that of Jesus and his gospel, which transforms every aspect of life. Bowen hopes that church leaders--evangelical and mainline, young and old, emerging and traditional--will have a transformative "Aha!" moment as this gospel hypothesis unfolds.
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Leading While Black: The Intersectionality of Race, Leadership, and God
Through conversations and deep attention to the lived experience of leaders, Torrance Jones explores the intersectionality of these three worlds--Black, Christian, and leader--and inspires Black Christians to lead from the context of all that they are.
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Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small-Town Leaders
Recovering Abundance invites readers to join a movement of renewal for small towns and rural communities. Andy Stanton-Henry explores twelve civic-spiritual practices, rooted in Jesus's miracle among the multitude, demonstrating how it has been embodied in ordinary leaders and how it can be applied today.
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Leadership Expectations: How Executive Expectations are Created and Used in a Non-Profit Setting
Leadership Expectations is an in-depth study of expectations and how one leader creates and uses them to shape a university, its culture and its success. Following the executive and personal development of leaders, as well as the values they emulate, the organization touches lives and increases its capacity for good.
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Leadership in a Slum: A Bangkok Case Study
In Bangkok, Leadership in a Slum uses culturally preferred, non-Western models to evaluate the on-the-ground realities of Thai leadership. This work offers an anthropological understanding of leadership rooted in local social systems, contrary to the assumption of universal applicability of leadership research findings across all cultural settings.
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eBook-Reclaiming the "V" Word: Renewing Life at Its Vocational Core
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Centered in a definition of vocation that flows from Luther's conviction that all Christians share the same vocation but live it out in various occupations and... -
Deeply Woven Roots: Improving the Quality of Life in Your Community
With insight born of experience and conviction, The Carter Center's Gary Gunderson suggests ways that congregations, religious leaders, and concerned...
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