Is your church mostly blue, largely red or solidly purple? Whatever the case, pastoral theologian Eileen Campbell-Reed wants you to prioritize and ritualize your congregation’s grief to help you find your way in this new era of ministry.
Moving forward in the spirit of agape love can help allay dissonance and build the Beloved Community, Lesley Anne Earles and Debra J. Mumford write.
The school in Mayesville, South Carolina, once had a prominent space in the community’s heart. A group of alumni are working hard to renew its mission.
We asked you to write about small, beautiful moments in 250 words or less. Here are some of our favorite submissions.
Budgets and worship numbers matter — but they are not everything, Phil Blackburn believes.
A church can be viable without a pastor, writes Catherine Neelly Burton. Once we embrace this, churches can go about their work of being Christ’s body.
There is no sure-fire recipe guaranteed to produce faith, Ronald Byars writes. Maybe that’s why so many testify that their faith came as a gift.
Lydia Griffiths maintains there is rich diversity among Protestant religious thinkers when it comes to a transforming relationship with God.
In an unexpected casting of Drosselmeyer, Matt Rich finds – in life and in ministry – the role you think you are going to play might not be the role you get.
Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity recounts how a twirling vision became the ministry of A Sanctified Art, an arts collective creating resources for church leaders and spiritual seekers.
Marcia McFee helps faith leaders discover sensory-rich ways of being intentional for those at worship.
We are caretakers of a holy conversation sparked by a visual expression of God’s word, writes Theresa Cho.
"Before there is faithful preaching, there is faithful listening," writes Thomas G. Long.
Barbara Wheeler examines the critical and constructive project led by Ted Smith of Candler School of Theology that predicts professional models of ministry, denominations and congregations will not survive in their current form.
Leading in our changing world, especially in the face of resistance, says Tod Bolsinger, requires resilience.
To fully appreciate how JCSTS has shaped leaders in both the past and the present, recall the history of education in this country for those who were formerly enslaved and for their descendants, writes Paul Roberts.
As we seek and follow God’s will, we are drawn deeper into the partnership with God, writes Joan Gray.
To accept that we – and the church – have reached the metaphorical borderland, writes José R. Irizarry, is to be willing to imagine ourselves anew.
"Other traditions can reteach Christians what we have forgotten," writes John Thatamanil.
"As rural people and leaders, we have both an opportunity and an obligation to both witness and testify to Jesus’ inclusive ministry," writes Phillip Blackburn.
Vibrant, multifaith chaplaincy exists where there is a “both/and” model of engagement, Kelly Stone explains.
Joe Morrow says contemporary life in the 21st century is about “coming to terms with the array of options.”
Doug Basler answered a call in 2020 to help revitalize a church. His true mission became a litany to leading – lovingly and faithfully – the letting go.
From nonfiction to YA to poetry, the Outlook staff shares the books they are loving right now.
TikTok influencer José Salguero and PC(USA) pastor Don Griggs find God is present at the public library. (We think #thatsfresh.)
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