Rev. Nicole Havelka, a certified yoga instructor, offers consulting, training, and team-building services.

CONVERGENCE offers numerous leadership and community development webinars on-demand or in a cohort:

1.5 Day Teach-In with Diana Butler Bass

Being Grateful in Difficult Times: An Online Learning Journey with Diana Butler Bass

Transforming Church Conflict

White Too Long: A Webinar with Robert Jones from the Anderson Forum for Progressive Theology

Courageous Church Summit: Reimagining Our Common Ground for the Collective Good

How to Use Your Church Campus As a Tool for Neighborhood Revitalization

White Privilege Let's Talk: A Resource for Transformational Dialogue

What Will Happen to Our Churches? A Conversation with National Faith Leaders

Courageous Faith Summit - a virtual gathering of people of faith and moral conscience

Your Congregation As a School of Love (with Brian McLaron)

How to Work from Home 101: How to Thrive as a Remote Employee

CLP: Online Small Group Curriculum for Your Church (7 Course Bundle)

Curating Change in Your Church (with Brian McLaren)

The Faith+Lead Learning Lab is a place to listen, learn, innovate, and grow. Join other spiritual leaders in grappling with real-world challenges and discoveries of ministry in the 21st Century.

Right Questions For Church Leaders, Volumes 1-4

Leaders do not need answers.
Leaders must have the right questions.

Thriving Beyond COVID is a scripture-based small and large group study that will encourage, inspire, and challenge members and get them in a positive frame of mind for your post-COVID journey. Challenges can be managed with faith and a plan. This two-minute video is an introduction. A leader guide, small and large group participant guides, as well as videos are available for free download here.

BREAKING, BLESSING, BUILDING

A Call For The Common Good

The NEXT Church National Gathering explored necessary breaking, gracious blessing, and essential building.

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Sunday Musings

On True Freedom 

Diana Butler Bass

Rev. Dr. Cameron Trimble recommends meeting conflict, roadblocks, and division with a balancing martial art in A Black Belt in Aikido.

A Gentler, Better Way to Change Minds

Stop wielding your values as a weapon and start offering them as a gift.

 Women often suffer the most from environmental degradation. A nonprofit in Colombia is trying to make their needs central to conservation.

Ninfa Carianil Damaso, first female forest ranger of Fundación ProAves, poses in front of a nature preservation sign.

PHOTO COURTESY OF FUNDACIÓN PROVISO

By Rev. Dr. Anna Hall

“Centering Marginalized Voices to Lead Change” featuring Tyler Sit — Episode 95

What practices can help church leaders learn from failures and address conflict in ways that lead to fruitful ministry? We speak with Tyler Sit about centering marginalized voices, meeting the needs of the community, managing conflict, and other leadership lessons he has learned as a church planter. 

How Do You Know When It's Time to Go?

by Cindy Halvorson with Susan Miller

Part 1: Internal Factors

Part 2: External Factors

Episode 86: “Daring to Think Forward in a Time of Accelerating Change” featuring Dwight Friesen

How can churches get ahead of the curve by learning to anticipate change rather than always responding to change after the fact? Dwight Friesen shares ways to cultivate the imagination and skill set needed to think forward.

A Church for Starving Artists blogger Jan Edmiston considers, Is Empathizing the Same as Coddling? (Your Answer Impacts Who We Are as the Church).

Rev. Lee Ann Pomrenke offers reopening and revamping insight and tips - both personal and congregational - in A Hard Factory Reset: Big Life Changes Made During the Pandemic.

Jessica Guleth wonders, "What does it look like for the voices of our youth to be invited in, heard and included in the ways we do for adults? What needs adjusting in our minds and hearts to see and hear them as members?" in The Future of the Church Is Young.

Eileen Campbell-Reed explains the importance of Cultivating Good Questions

~ing Podcast Episode 40: Pastoring during the Pandemic

Five pastors who have ministered during the pandemic sit down to discuss leading, growing, and being as people of God navigating a global pandemic together.

• Rev. Greg Milinovich is Senior Pastor at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in State College, PA
• Justin Fung is Pastor of Leadership and Spiritual Formation at Christ City Church in Washington, DC
• Jen Gruendler is Youth and Young Adult Minister at Zumbro Lutheran in Rochester, MN
• Rev. John Harwood is Priest in Charge at St. Mark's Episcopal in Lewistown, PA
• Rev. Matthew Yoder is Pastor of Grace Mennonite Church in Pandora, OH

Acknowledging the Toll of the Pandemic on Ministry Leaders by Mike Bonem

Now Is the Time for Risk-taking Leadership by Bill Wilson

During the pandemic, many leaders were concerned primarily with avoiding risk. Bill Wilson says we are now entering a time in the life of the American church that cries out for creative risk taking that puts aside personal preferences for the sake of the gospel.

The Role of Religion in Healing the National Divide

by Dr. Rick Herrick on May 25, 2021

Springtide Research Institute is a wealth of research-based information for boundaries and best practices for youth and young adult ministries. The New Normal: 8 Ways to Care for Gen Z in a Post-Pandemic World is but one example.

Let people know who you are, engage in civic discourse, and identify as networked within your community: get inspired by leaders from Alexandria, MN here.

Brian McLaren's, The Five Electorates in 2020 is essential reading for understanding the "other"; see also Recognizing Our Biases.