In case you haven’t noticed, brain science is coming to a church in your neighborhood, perhaps even your own. Just like sociology, furnace repair science, and adolescent psychology, neurobiology has moved from the front pages of newspapers and science magazines…

Luke 16-10 “Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much…” Nothing prepared me for the experience of pastoring the small congregation to which I was first called. Neither my personal experience nor my seminary training had…

After two years of work on a sexual harassment problem at a Fortune 500 company without producing the desired results, an organization development consultant specializing in gender issues and conflict resolution sought help from David Cooperrider, a professor at Case…

When your brain shows up in church, it likely encounters platitudes, phrases of known and unknown origin that pass for “communication” in much of our life together as God’s people. (Good, you already caught that platitude swimming by!) Because these…

For at least a decade, loving and critical church leaders have pointed out that the “presumption of neediness” that has guided several generations of pastors and thousands of mission statements is essentially flawed. These criticisms seem to group themselves around…

Americans have a passion for information. We treasure our freedom of speech and the growing access we have to all kinds of information. Some of us have a vision of governance based on the town meeting where officers are challenged…