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Alban Weekly on 'The Importance of Outcomes'
Friday, June 12th, 2009
From Alban Weekly: An old saying goes “If you don’t know where you are going, any path will get you there.” This suggests that if you are not clear about what you, your staff, and your congregation are to “produce” in ministry—what the clear outcomes of your work are to be—then it is okay for [...]
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Alban Weekly on 'Increasing Resiliency to Hardship'
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
From Alban Weekly, excerpted from A Ready Hope: Effective Disaster Ministry for Congregations: Research with survivors of many types of calamities—including natural disasters, wars, domestic violence, severe illness, major accidents, and job-related losses—indicates variables that compassionate people can influence. Though an individual’s attitude, beliefs, and values are key factors in recovery, so too is the [...]
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Alban Weekly on 'Leading in a Culture of Change'
Monday, May 4th, 2009
From Alban Weekly: If this approach to change were taken in a congregation, there would be no formal engagement in a step-by-step change process. Instead, these various elements would be introduced over time: The church board would take time on a regular basis to consider the dynamics of change in a congregation and the forces [...]
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Alban Weekly on 'The Art of Governance'
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
From Alban Weekly: Religion transforms people; no one touches holy ground and stays the same. Religious leaders stir the pot by pointing to the contrast between life as it is and life as it should be, and urging us to close the gap. Religious insights provide the handhold that people need to criticize injustice, rise [...]
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Alban Weekly on 'Tending the Embers'
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
From Alban Weekly: Some churches have become a cold, gray hearth, with nary a sign of life. Others have stoked and tend a full and robust fire. But in between, I am convinced, there are some congregations, maybe more than we’d guess, awaiting a discerning eye to bend close enough to see the glow of [...]
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Alban Weekly on 'Optimal Level of Conflict'
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
From Alban Weekly: Every congregation experiences conflict, even though each one does so in unique ways. The sources of conflict may vary from the micro to the macro–from intrapersonal pathologies to personality differences to globalization forces–but over time they are inescapable. Various studies have shown that organizational leaders and managers spend up to 25 percent [...]
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