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Christian Leadership

January 9, 2024

As more pastors age and retire, churches appear to be facing a succession crisis, a study says

Recent research released by Barna Group reveals a demographic trend that may not bode well for the stability of congregations. As a significant percentage of...

August 30, 2021

Francis Collins: Science is ‘a glimpse of God’s mind’

  Having led the international team that mapped the human genome, Francis Collins said of that work: “We had now seen the language that God...

October 27, 2020

In a season of reckonings, forgiveness is not forgetting

By Anthea Butler

This year will be remembered as unforgiving. The murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Daniel Prude, along with another 161 Black men and women...

October 15, 2019

Why storytelling matters

By Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros

  My grandmother tells a story, entirely in Spanish, of a viejita, an old woman, who collects small logs on her way to her casita,...

June 13, 2017

Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: ‘Living prayer’ by praying with beads

By Gretchen E. Ziegenhals

  If theologian Sarah Coakley had one message about power for Christian institutional leaders, it would focus on “the power that comes through transparency to...