A lever for change: Telling the congregation’s story
Fruitful leadership in an established
church requires learning the congregation's story. God's vision
will emerge partly out of that history, and leaders must be able to connect
the new vision to past visions.
No shows: The decline in worship attendance
Many people assume that there has been a steady decline in worship
attendance for all the mainline denominations since the mid-1960s—the
era when most of them began to see their memberships decline. But
trends in attendance have actually followed their own
patterns.
Sons of Mississippi
One picture has become a symbol of white resistance to James Meredith’s 1962 entrance to the University of Mississippi as its ...
Captive church
The Last Days: A Son's Story of Sin and Segregation at the Dawn of a New South by Charles Marsh...