Jim Harnish finds the grace of ordinary times in ministry.
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The Jubilee Years: Embracing Clergy Retirement
Bruce Epperly invites us to imagine a new way of seeing retirement — as a season of fulfillment and service.
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Reclaiming Rural: Building Thriving Rural Congregations
Allen Stanton acknowledges the many challenges facing rural congregations — but also offers a hopeful vision for their futures.
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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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Mark Edington: A vision for bivocational ministry
An Episcopal priest and author offers a different way of understanding bivocational ministry
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Bruce Epperly: Encouraging Lay Theology
A pastor reflects on the success of his church’s ministries of Christian education and formation
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Judy Urban: Bringing New Life to Your Congregation
Many congregations are struggling to keep existing members and attract new ones. Today’s faith communities are reexamining everything in an effort to more fully engage existing members and draw in potential new members. The understanding is growing that congregational leaders…
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Bruce Epperly: The Pastor as Theologian
Clergy must remember the importance of the calling to study, writes pastor Bruce Epperly
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Nathan Kirkpatrick: Beginning Your Board’s Leadership Together
Before getting down to business in the new year, invest some time in board development, writes the managing director of Alban at Duke Divinity.
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Andrew Kort: Yoked — We are in this together
Being yoked to another person and congregations being yoked in ministry to other congregations is essential for flourishing ministry, writes the co-author of a new Alban book
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