Vision, Leadership & van Gogh
Derek R. Nelson Before he was a great-but-not-much-appreciated painter, Vincent van Gogh was a lousy-but-very-much-appreciated pastor. The details of this little-known chapter in his life…
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ARDA Conversation with Art Farnsley
Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program Director Rev. Libby Davis Manning and Dr. Art Farnsley discuss a new educational program where the ARDA holds seminars to help…
A Leader’s Ego
by Raymond B. Williams, Senior Advisor to the Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program The presupposition at the beginning of a leadership program was that a strong…
Resisting Erasure Through Grace
Did racism or theology or gender motivate the shootings in Georgia? All of the above. When news about the Atlanta killings broke, I saw in…
What I Learned About Ministry From Beekeeping
“Terroir,” the word for the local environmental factors that give a particular wine or honey its distinctive flavor, can be applied to ministry, writes the…
ARDA Training Opportunity
Every WPLP cohort has experienced at least one presentation from The Association of Religion Data Archives. ARDA has tools for researchers and journalists, but it…
Blessings Beyond the Two Years of WPLP
by Jerry Ingalls, Lead Pastor, First Baptist Church, New Castle, IN There are two things I want to share with you about how my experiences…
Institutional Racism: Lessons from South Africa
by The Rev. Matthew Cowden, Rector, St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, South Bend, Indiana Our Cohort 3, WPLP pilgrimage to South Africa in…
A Collective Adaptive Moment
by Tim Knauff, Senior Pastor, Christ Lutheran Church, Valparaiso, Indiana I hate plastic shopping bags. I hate how they feel, I hate that they’re too…
Pursuing Justice In the Wake of George Floyd and Others
by Rev. Carey A. Grady, Pastor, Reid Chapel AME Church, Columbia, South Carolina The recent killing of George Floyd is a constant reminder of the…