by Jim Kelsey | Apr 1, 2016 | Opinion
Ministry used to be simpler it seems. You had your kids, your youth, your adults and your seniors. You could tell who was who simply by looking at them. Then you knew what to do. Kids? Play-Doh, cookies and Bible stories would get the job done. Youth? Some pizza, ping...
by Dennis Bickers | Apr 1, 2016 | Opinion
I worked regularly with pastor search committees in Indiana and Kentucky during the last 14 years as an American Baptist Churches resource minister. My role was to help them through our process of searching for a pastor and to give them information on persons that...
by Mark Tidsworth | Mar 31, 2016 | Opinion
I am engaged regularly for coaching or consulting on the other side of change – when things don’t go so well. Pastors who have initiated a failed change process are typically curious (if they have the luxury of curiosity) about what happened. Certainly,...
by Stuart Blythe | Mar 31, 2016 | Opinion
One of the ways in which Christians develop a particular understanding of “Christian” leadership is through a study of biblical characters. A quick look suggests that the following names are often in or near the top 10 of favorites: Abraham, Joseph, Moses,...
by Simon Jones | Mar 30, 2016 | Opinion
I visited the Calais Jungle in early March with Lynn Green, general secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain. The goal was to help her see what was happening and give her some insight into the work I and some colleagues (notably Juliet Kilpin, a Baptist...
by Katie Swafford | Mar 30, 2016 | Opinion
People struggle with mental illness all around us. Though we may be shocked to hear the statistic that one in five will experience a mental illness in a given year or that 10 million adults in the U.S. live with some type of serious mental illness, we struggle to...
