Religion : Leadership

Giving examples of large-scale changes that have occurred during the past three decades, Schaller helps church leaders embrace new challenges and opportunities for ministry. more...

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Leadership among God's people is not a matter of easy answers or simple solutions. There is no foolproof list of character traits that one can acquire and develop in order to be a successful leader. Authentic leadership is a complex interaction of the leader's gifts and calling, the people's needs and response, the particular situation of the moment, and, above all, the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Birch and Parks believe if we wish to understand the intricate and messy character of leadership in the church, the obvious place to start is Scripture. more...

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Life at the end of the twentieth century presents us with a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways of speaking that address the hatred of the other. Reaching back to the New Testament metaphor of salvation as reconciliation, Volf proposes the idea of embrace as a theological response to the problem of exclusion. Increasingly we see that exclusion has become the primary sin, skewing our perceptions of reality and causing us to react out of fear and anger to all those who are not within our (ever-narrowing) circle. In light of this, Christians must learn that salvation comes, not only as we are reconciled to God, and not only as we 'learn to live with one another', but as we take the dangerous and costly step of opening ourselves to the other, of enfolding him or her in the same embrace with which we have been enfolded by God. more...

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In this innovative book Tom Bandy explains how harmony - the desire to minimize conflict and change - can deaden our discernment of the leadership of the Spirit, and render us blind to the needs of the world into which Jesus would lead. more...

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The future of online religion is now! Operating online allows long-established religious communities to reach the unaffiliated as never before. More startling is the ease by which anyone with internet access can create new circles of faith. Electronic shrines and kitschy personal Web 'altars' express adoration for living celebrities, just as they honor the memory of long-departed martyrs. In Give Me That Online Religion , online religion expert Brenda Brasher braves a new world in which cyber concepts and technologies challenge conventional ideas about the human condition - all the while attempting to realize age-old religious ideals of transcendence and eternal life. more...

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