Happy Birthday to Us!
This month, the SPE Website celebrates its first birthday! Over the past year, we published 56 articles—essays, features, and theological reflections on excellence—including 21 submissions from various SPE programs.
Thank you to all our SPE friends for your articles and your suggestions—and keep them coming. If you haven’t written for the Web site yet, give it a try. Join our growing list of contributors this year and tell your SPE colleagues what you’re learning about excellence in ministry.
Send your articles and suggestions to spe@div.duke.edu.
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Traditional vs. contemporary? Ancient vs. modern? It’s a false choice, says Bishop Kenneth L. Carder. Excellent ministry requires both.
It’s one of the most hair-raising experiences in all of ministry: starting a new church. But in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), church-plant success rates are skyrocketing, thanks to coaching for new-church pastors.
Dean James P. Bowers outlines a uniquely Pentecostal vision of pastoral excellence, one “shaped by who we are as Pentecostals, what pastoral practice issues pastors face, and where we are in the Pentecostal Movement in the United States.”
Elizabeth MacLeod Walls writes about a pastor whose vision of new life for clergy in rural Nebraska has taken hold and is producing fruit.
Make room on your bookshelf for two new volumes on excellence in ministry, just out from Eerdman’s this spring.
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