When the path forward is obvious, it is relatively easy for a leader to know what to do. We can rely on strategies that have worked well in the past. We can use existing resources and relationships to solve problems,…
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It’s time to slow down
Busy leaders do not always make better leaders. Sometimes, busy leaders are just that: busy. As three major holidays rapidly approach — Thanksgiving, Advent and Christmas — leaders will be tempted to get more work done by speeding up the pace,…
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Preaching is leadership
Preaching gives pastors an incredible opportunity that most leaders do not have. At their best, sermons teach, inspire and provoke, which are three essentials for leadership and change. Whatever approach we use for sermon planning, preparation and delivery, preaching has the potential…
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How to cultivate trust in congregations
Leadership cannot flourish without trust. Relationships, institutions and communities depend on people having confidence in one another. Clergy who want to lead change, transform congregations and establish authentic interpersonal connections need to understand that trust is never automatic. Trust is cultivated…
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Celebrating the Graying Church: Mutual Ministry Today, Legacies Tomorrow
Today, many churches and their related agencies and ministries are shrinking. Often a large portion of those who remain are older adults. Celebrating the Graying Church suggests that this is an opportunity for a new and different kind of ministry—a ministry to,…
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Bruce Epperly: The Jubilee Years
What if we rethink retirement by imagining the time as “the jubilee years”?
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Sam Wells: ‘At the Heart, On the Edge’
The vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London describes a visionary network for the renewal of church and society
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Mark Edington: A vision for bivocational ministry
An Episcopal priest and author offers a different way of understanding bivocational ministry
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A remembrance of Loren Mead
The following are the prepared remarks of the managing director of Alban, Nathan Kirkpatrick, at Loren Mead’s funeral at St Alban’s Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2018. In 1994, after Loren had announced his retirement from the…
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Remembering Loren B. Mead
Loren Benjamin Mead, son of Dr. Walter Russell Mead and Dorothy Nauss Mead, died peacefully under hospice care at his home, Goodwin House Bailey’s Crossroads in Falls Church, Virginia on May 5, 2018. Loren was born in Florence, South Carolina,…
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