Review of A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix by Edwin H. Friedman Review by Skyler Jay Keiter-Massefski A Failure of Nerve is Edwin Friedman’s seminal work, diagnosing problems of imaginative gridlock and chronic anxiety in American leadership at every level and proposing a different course for leadership founded upon self-differentiation and a … Read more
“Can the cross redeem the lynching tree? Can the lynching tree liberate the cross and make it real in American history (161)?” Through theological, historical, and literary analysis, these are the central questions that James Cone explores and attempts to answer throughout The Cross and the Lynching Tree. Beginning with the assertion that the lynching … Read more
Nona Jones, From Social Media to Social Ministry: A Guide to Digital Discipleship. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2020. 176 pages. What if there were a better way to ‘do church’ online? The COVID-19 pandemic and the various lockdowns associated with it spurred a massive shift towards online church. While social media platforms like YouTube and Facebook … Read more
Tod Bolsinger, Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory. Downers Grove: IVP Books, 2015. 269 pages. Canoeing the Mountains offers a better way to think about the problems of congregational decline and the changes that churches need to make to respond to a new world. Turning the Lewis and Clarke expedition into a parable, … Read more
by Stephen Milton Church congregations are shrinking, and closing every day, so how do we save church? The answer, according to Travis Collins, is to stop trying to save church. Collins is the Pastor of First Baptist Church in Huntsville, Alabama, and Director of Mission Advancement for Fresh Expressions U.S.. In From the Steeple to … Read more
The unexpected post-Corona Virus pivot to online everything gave rise to a whole host of issues that few had explored outside of the evangelical community. Within the first few days and weeks a host of articles appeared either embracing or rejecting the move to virtual worship. While a few of these were helpful and many … Read more