CURATED ARTICLES
Tempered Resilience
Tempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change A 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...
Care For Yourself First
Care For Yourself First from Building Church Leaders Newsletter Most of the pastors I’m talking to are busier now than they were before the pandemic. They’re scrambling to do everything they did to serve people before—but must do it all in new ways. During this time,...
How to Keep Uninvited Guests Out of Your Zoom Event
Manage your Zoom Participants Some of the other great features to help secure your Zoom event and host with confidence: Allow only signed-in users to join: If someone tries to join your event and isn’t logged into Zoom with the email they were invited through, they...
At Home Liturgy of Grief and Soul Care
The Rev. Dr. Barbara Welch has developed a project to help pastors and spiritual leaders care for and guide their congregations through the realities of coping during this time of COVID-19. That project, COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place, Guided Resources for...
Connecting with Congregation Teens
Connecting with Congregation Teens Youth - Holly Miller Shank
Comfort Through Music- Ron Pogue
While we are facing the COVID-19 pandemic apart from one another, each afternoon I am sharing a piece of music chosen to bring reassurance, comfort, and hope to anxious hearts. Today's selection is “My Song is Love Unknown” sung by the Choir of King’s College,...
New Interim during a New Way of Life
I started 7 weeks ago as the interim pastor at the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor, Maine and attended my first week of interim ministry training with IMN in February in Parrish Florida. Fabulous group and training. I was so looking forward to my second week...
Lockdown – Hendricks
Lockdown by Brother Richard HendrickYes there is fear. Yes there is isolation. Yes there is panic buying. Yes there is sickness. Yes there is even death. But, They say that in Wuhan after so many years of noise You can hear the birds again. They say that after just a...
Faith and Family
Traci Smith A lot of us are wondering how church will be the same (or different) now that we’re in the middle of a lot of changes related to COVID-19. I think this is a time for us, as church leaders, to show our creativity. I think that churches and ministry people...
Stewardship
Why Choose Generosity in Times of Uncertainty and Fear? Horizons Stewardship There will always be a reason for someone to be afraid of something. It could be financial market volatility, political unrest, health scares, or social complexities. Sometimes all of those...