Pastors

Amid Charlotte’s tragedy, Claude Alexander calls pastors to be both critics and reconcilers.

What a bout with cancer taught me about caring for the people I lead.

How can we reach our communities if they have no idea we love them? And how will they know we love them if we don’t work alongside them?

When a healthy church gathers for worship it should renew our passion to mobilize and move out in ministry.

Neither death threats nor tepid response discouraged two pastors from praying over every murder site in their city for years.

When productivity replaces hospitality, we miss the point of pastoring.

I thought a town hall meeting would be the perfect venue to fight for justice. I was oh-so-wrong.

God is using 124 people from this historic congregation to support a big ministry.

Not everyone is required to be a first responder. Or even to respond to every crisis. That’s simply not possible. But, as the body of Christ, we’re all called to respond.

The biggest threat facing churches isn’t a disaster event—it’s how we think about disasters.