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Leadership Journal Winter 2013

Radical Calling

a Leadership Journal interview

Fasting Together

Katherine Callahan-Howell

Recruiting Team Players

Larry W. Osborne

Catching up with the Global Church

Interview with Patrick Johnstone

It's Your Call

Finding Your Own Preaching Voice

Interview with Lawrence E. Aker III

Developing Future Leaders

Call Me Maybe

Refocused Vocation

Chris R. Armstrong

Are women happy with church?

Compiled by Eric Reed

Multiplying the message

Words used well

Compiled by Eric Reed

Check Your Vitals

Gordon MacDonald

Anxiety Attack!

Uncommon Callings

Calling all Christians

The Just Church by Jim Martin (Tyndale, 2012)

The New Tent-Makers

Call Forwarding

Leading Distracted People

Adam Stadtmiller

Bienvenidos

Compiled by Eric Reed

The Force of Habit

Into the Smoke

Why We Need Plumbers—and Pastors

The 2012 Leadership Book Awards

Cartoon

Loving Enemies

J.B. Handelsman

Breaking Down the Dollar

Cartoon

Meeting Agenda

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Distracted Disciples

Cartoon

Pastor Leaving

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

No Personality

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Prayer Requests

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Reasons for Seminary

Cartoon

Subtle Messages

Cartoon

Validation

Dennis Fletcher

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Military families receive free food from a food bank

News

Government Shutdown Deepens Hunger Crisis

Harvest Prude in Maryland

When paychecks and SNAP distributions stop, the food pantry line grows.

Jonah and the whale

Jonah in an Age of Outrage

Michael LeFebvre

The prophet’s lesson is also ours: We must recover compassion for neighbor and enemy alike, or our words will be hollow.

Christian (left) and Muslim (right) women praying and studying in Iraq.

Grassroots Efforts Bring Together Diverse Sects in Iraq

Interfaith group uses projects and dialogues to push for greater religious freedom.

People worshipping in church.

Becoming Part of God’s Family

Carmen Joy Imes

Weekly participation in ordinary church life isn’t flashy, but it is radical.

David French

The Russell Moore Show

David French on Faith, Fear, and the Future of the Church

David French checks in on a potpourri of important subjects.

A man pulls a slot machine lever.

Analysis

NBA Betting Scandal Highlights Need for Christian Voice on Gambling

The Bulletin with Isaac Rose-Berman

Churches have a role in protecting vulnerable young men.

Photos from Kathryn Roelofs' adoption and childhood.

News

‘Every Adoptee’s Worst Nightmare’

Isabel Ong with Jennifer Park in South Korea

The horrifying history of adoption fraud in South Korea has spurred Christians to finally care for orphans in their own country.

Seven tvs all showing faces of different figures from horror movies, such as the scream.

The Bulletin

NYC Mayoral Race, Trump Softens to Ukraine, and Can Horror Films Edify?

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll

Mamdani leads NYC mayoral race, Trump-Putin relationship cools, and why horror movies might help you cope in a horrible world.