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  • Finding Our Story

    Narrative Leadership and Congregational Change

    Series series Narrative Leadership Collection
    Helping a community of faith 're-vision' its personal and collective narratives is one of the greatest leadership challenges of the age. In Finding Our Story, Larry Golemon, lead researcher of the Alban Institute's Narrative Leadership in Ministry project, has assembled essays by congregational consultants who use the power of story to help congregations heal, strengthen, and reinvent themselves. ... Read more

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  • Teaching Our Story

    Narrative Leadership and Pastoral Formation

    Series series Narrative Leadership Collection
    Teaching Our Story is based on the premise that as congregations become intentional story-forming communities, they can shape the lives of millions of generative, faithful, and civic-minded adults. To do so, a framework that relates narrative work to the full range of congregational life is needed. This book offers such a framework, featuring essays that examine crucial shapers of narrative, ... Read more

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  • Clergy Education in America

    Religious Leadership and American Public Life

    Series series Religion in America Series
    Clergy have historically been represented as figures of authority, wielding great influence over our society. During certain periods of American history, members of the clergy were nearly ever-present in public life. But men and women of the clergy are not born that way, they are made. And therefore, the matter of their education is a question of fundamental public importance. In Clergy Education ... Read more

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  • Living Our Story

    Narrative Leadership and Congregational Culture

    Series series Narrative Leadership Collection
    Living Our Story explores how good narrative work—the retrieval, construction, and performance of valued stories—takes place in ministry. Authors Larry A. Golemon, Lee Ramsey, N. Graham Standish, Tim Shapiro, Carol Johnson, Mike Mather, Niles Elliot Goldstein, and Diana Butler Bass examine this question from a variety of perspectives, including the role of the pastor or rabbi as narrative leader, ... Read more

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    Women and ministry from New Testament times to the present

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    Making and Remaking the United Church of Canada

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