7 Suggestions for Pastors Leaving Their Churches

This is the season for clergy and church staff to move. Quite a few pastors have contacted me about managing their goodbyes and hellos as they transition. These pastors want to manage their leaving well as a final way to love their congregations. In addition, they...

4 Pastors Describe a Healthy Search Process

The search process for a new pastor is both an exhilarating and a risky time for a congregation. Healthy congregations go at this task from the framework of a spiritual discernment process that is unique to the free call tradition of congregational life. Every search...

How Churches Can Plan for Their Next Minister

As Steve Jobs has stepped aside at Apple due to health issues, a number of folks have weighed in on the topic of succession planning for CEOs, especially those entrepreneurs who founded their companies or have been the driving force to take their organizations to new...