Rev. Anita L. Bradshaw

Change and Conflict in Your Congregation (Even If You Hate Both)

How to Implement Conscious Choices, Manage Emotions and Build a Thriving Christian Community

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A warmhearted guidebook to help your church navigate change and channel conflict into a stronger sense of mission and community. Lay leaders, pastors and church staff will be empowered by creative, practical strategies to establish appropriate congregational behavior, offer nonanxious leadership and foster community discussion and discernment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SkyLight Paths
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781594735783
• ISBN-10: 1594735786
• Artikelnr.: 41126155

Autorenporträt

Rev. Anita L. Bradshaw, PhD, theologian and consultant, helps congregations across the denominational spectrum grow through change and find healthy resolution to conflict. She has taught at universities and seminaries across the United States, including Yale Divinity School, Augsburg College and Hartford Seminary. An ordained pastor in the United Church of Christ, she has also served as a parish pastor, interim pastor and interim denominational executive.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Is This Normal? Accepting Change and Conflict in the Church
2. What Are We So Afraid Of? Using Scripture, History, and Theology to
Reframe Our Perspective
3. Why Is Change So Difficult? Understanding and Managing the Process of
Transformation
4. How Can Conflict Be Positive? Strategies for Working with and Thriving
Through Disagreements
5. Why Do We Love Extremes? Developing Imagination and Managing Polarities
6. What Is Our Story? Discovering and Changing the Way We See Ourselves
Benediction
Notes
Suggested Resources