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What missional readiness looks like 

Posted on August 25, 2025 by Prince R. Rivers

Churches need new paradigms to develop a thriving missional culture.

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You don’t know what you don’t see 

Posted on August 18, 2025 by Prince R. Rivers

Problems in our organization might be a result of our own blind spots

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How to ask for help

Posted on August 11, 2025 by Prince R. Rivers

When we ask others for help, we send an important message to those we serve

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A multiplicity of vocations

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Prince R. Rivers

We can’t do everything. We need to trust that God is calling leaders — and congregations — to various meaningful commitments.

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Becoming a Clergy Mother: A Study of How Motherhood Changes Ministry

by Pamela Cooper-White Images of birth have long held power and meaning in Christian theology. Indeed, the sacrament of baptism has birth as its central metaphor. What more powerful image of the flowering of human sexuality into birth than the ritual…

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