Nurturing Leaders: Leading in the Way of Jesus
Phillips Seminary President Gary Peluso-Verdend writes about the need for leaders who follow the Jesus way in his leadership series.
View ArticleNurturing Leaders: The 500 Year Re-Birth
Phillips Seminary President Gary Peluso-Verdend writes about the need for leaders who follow the Jesus way in his leadership series.
View ArticleNurturing Leaders: Ready for the U.S. of 2040?
Phillips Seminary President Gary Peluso-Verdend writes about the need for leaders who follow the Jesus way in his leadership series.
View ArticleNurturing Leaders: Nurturing Liberal and Generous Leaders?
Phillips Seminary President Gary Peluso-Verdend writes about the need for leaders who follow the Jesus way in his leadership series.
View ArticleNurturing Leaders: Leaders to Recycle, Re-purpose, Re-hab
Phillips Seminary President Gary Peluso-Verdend writes about the need for leaders who follow the Jesus way in his leadership series.
View ArticleNurturing Leaders: Leading Vital Conversations
Phillips Seminary President Gary Peluso-Verdend writes about the need for leaders who follow the Jesus way in his leadership series.
View ArticleNurturing Leaders: Cultivate the Public Good
Phillips Seminary President Gary Peluso-Verdend uses the Diocese of Tulsa decision to leave the Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice as the topic of his most recent blog on leadership.
View ArticleNurturing Leaders: Meet My Pastor, the Seminary Educated Carpenter
The un-congregating of the U.S. is underway and the association of Christian congregations with middle-class Americanism is eroding (and that is not a bad thing). This means the base of persons likely...
View ArticleNurturing Leaders Who Can Nurture Democracy
On this Independence Day holiday, Phillips Seminary President Gary Peluso-Verdend challenges the church to raise up leaders who will help democracy thrive.
View ArticleNurturing Responsible Interpreters
Biblical and theological interpretation is key in producing effective leaders for ministry. Phillips Seminary President Gary Peluso-Verdend offers his views on what it means to responsibly interpret.
View ArticleNurturing Leaders Attentive To God
Phillips Seminary President Gary Peluso-Verdend focuses on how to be more attentive to God in the face of fear and confusion.
View ArticleNurturing Risk Taking Leaders
What do the Wizard of Oz, pole vaulting and Star Trek have to do with finding leaders for the church? Make the connection with Gary Peluso-Verdend's latest blog post.
View ArticleChristian Education or Training?
Christians may be overeducated and under trained. Phillips Seminary President Gary Peluso-Verdend provides an argument for more training in the church.
View ArticleChristianity Needs Its Own Jon Stewart
The church needs a Jon Stewart type of commentator who uses humor on behalf of the gospel.
View ArticleRemember Your Baptism... Grace for Clergy
Church life seduces pastors to so cloak and overlay their baptismal calling with their clergy calling that the former disappears and, in effect, is forgotten on a daily basis.
View ArticleShould a Christian Be Elected President?
Phillips Seminary President Gary Peluso-Verdend doesn't back some kind of public test of a candidate’s orthodoxy. But neither is he willing to give any “Christian” candidate a pass on her or his faith.
View ArticleYou've Got to Be Carefully Taught
Phillips Seminary President Gary Peluso-Verdend works through options of where we might learn how to be moral in public, when everyone is looking, on matters that concern the human capacity to share...
View ArticleDeath Tsunami Threatens Church
With today’s average age in mainline churches at about 60, with many of the largest financial contributors to those congregations in their upper 60s, their 70s, and their 80s, and with such different...
View ArticleBlame, Stress, and Clergy Health
Phillips Seminary President Gary Peluso-Verdend writes that clergy health and well-being has declined along with the mainline Protestant church. He calls for less blaming and a more Zen approach to the...
View ArticleCan Congregations Continue to Fund Middle Class Clergy Salaries?
There have always been congregations that can pay well, but there has never been a congregational system full of substantial “livings.” There have always been relatively wealthy and relatively poor...
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