BOOK REVIEWS
Tempered Resilience
Tempered Resilience:How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of ChangeA Book Review by Rev. Martin Homan In 2015, Bolsinger wrote Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory. He was a pastor of a large church at the time. Over the next few...
Healing Spiritual Wounds: Reconnecting with a Loving God After Experiencing a Hurtful Church
Healing Spiritual Wounds: Reconnecting with a Loving God After Experiencing a Hurtful Church by Carol Howard Merritt An effective plan to help those suffering from wounds inflicted by the church find spiritual healing and a renewed sense of faith. Raised as a...
Holy Conversations: Strategic Planning as a Spiritual Practice for Congregations – By Martin Homan
Holy Conversations: Strategic Planning as a Spiritual Practice for Congregations Gil Rendle and Alice Mann The Alban Institute, 2003. xxvi & 289 pages. The authors provide the Intentional Interim Pastor with an extremely useful book filled with numerous tools....
Don’t Wait until the Pastor Leaves – By Alan Mead
Don’t Wait until the Pastor Leaves Planning for Ministerial Transition Helps Ensure that One Successful Minister Follows Another Written by Michael Durall Book Review by Rev. Alan Mead Although it doesn’t appear by the title to be a book of interest to interim...
Discovering the Other: Asset-Based Approached to Building Community Together – by Martin Homan
October 10, 2014 Cameron Harder. Discovering the Other: Asset-Based Approached to Building Community Together. Herndon, VA: The Alban Institute, 2013 (Kindle edition). Review by Martin Homan Cameron Harder writes this book to assist the reader to find the other –...
Doing the Math of Mission: Fruits, Faithfulness, and Metrics – By Martin Homan
August 25, 2015 Doing the Math of Mission: Fruits, Faithfulness, and Metrics By Martin Homan I was pleasantly surprised to discover this new book by Gil Rendle on Doing the Math of Mission. Gil has always been on the cutting edge of change and what it will look like...