Leadership
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The image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd is comforting to many, but there is a problem with the way we aren’t listening to it.
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Jesus’s teaching on secrecy and openness is complex. A more fundamental truth is needed for making sense of it: honesty.
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Recent data shows the mainline clergy are more likely to be liberal than their congregations. We shouldn’t assume this is real. Or matters.
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These are the three words I use to guide the year. It’s a practice I’ve been up to since 2016 and find it helps me focus.
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Following a leader into the unknown is never an easy proposition. Following when death and the end of the movement is even harder.
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The word “Messiah” is loaded with meaning—then and now. And that meaning is built around expectations that Jesus won’t embody.