Reasons for Seminary

Tim Walburg

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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

Scott Thomas

Call Me Maybe

Refocused Vocation

Chris R. Armstrong

Are women happy with church?

Compiled by Eric Reed

Multiplying the message

Bree Najera

Words used well

Compiled by Eric Reed

Check Your Vitals

Gordon MacDonald

Anxiety Attack!

Tommy Nelson

Uncommon Callings

Calling all Christians

The Just Church by Jim Martin (Tyndale, 2012)

Kyle Rohane

The New Tent-Makers

Chris Kopka

Call Forwarding

Leading Distracted People

Adam Stadtmiller

Bienvenidos

Compiled by Eric Reed

The Force of Habit

Jeff Haanen

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

Tim Davis

Cartoon

Personal Sermons

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Pastor Leaving

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

No Personality

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Prayer Requests

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Subtle Messages

Dan Pegoda

Cartoon

Validation

Dennis Fletcher

Our Latest

I Have a Social Disability. I’m Also a Leader.

David Giordano

God calls ministers who are afraid to make eye contact—not just ones who sparkle with personality.

Young attendees dance and sing on church grounds in the Kibera informal settlement of Nairobi.

News

Kenyan Churches Fight Extremism with Dancing

Pius Sawa

A youth pastor struggles to prevent young people from joining terrorist cells.

A phone with a screen in cracked pieces of red and blue.

What Broke the Evangelical Women’s Blogosphere

Kelsey Kramer McGinnis

Jen Hatmaker’s trajectory illustrates the fraught world of spiritual influencerhood and the disappearance of the messy middle.

Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring in ‘Nuremberg.’

Review

‘Nuremberg’’s ‘Never Again’ Comes With a Warning

Myles Werntz

The new film asks how the Holocaust happened: and whether it could happen again.

Ken Burns

The Russell Moore Show

Ken Burns on the American Revolution

A legendary filmmaker invites us to consider how the American Revolution can teach us how to get along with each other.

Jacob Elordi as The Creature in Frankenstein.

Review

In Netflix’s ‘Frankenstein,’ Monster Is More Compelling Than Maker

The Guillermo del Toro adaptation brings unique perspective—but fails to match the depth of its source material.

The book cover on a green background.

More Than a Magic Pill

Kathryn Butler

Rebecca McLaughlin’s latest book shows the radical health benefits of church attendance.

A man with a cart with boxes on it that say "SNAP," walking away from a truck loaded with boxes that say "SNAP."

The Bulletin

SNAP Benefits, Iran Update, and Practices to Calm Anxiety

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll

Federal funding for food assistance, what’s new in Iran, and embodied practices to address anxiety.