church abuse
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Creative Leadership
The First 48 Hours: How Leaders Should Respond When a Serious Crisis Happens
You’re a pastor, senior church leader, or lead a growing ministry. You’ve been a faithful shepherd your entire career and…
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Engaging Culture
Reporting Sex Abuse
With all the headlines recently about sexually or physically abusive situations at churches and ministry organizations, there’s a lot of…
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Creative Leadership
What Leaders Could Learn from the Mafia
Watching films like “The Godfather” or “Goodfellas,” you notice pretty quickly that the Mafia has a rule: Take care of…
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Creative Leadership
What To Do The First 24 Hours After a Leader’s Moral Failure
Especially in the religious and nonprofit world, a spiritual leader’s moral failure has a major impact. Along with the theological…
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Creative Leadership
It’s Launch Week for Church on Trial – And It Couldn’t Be More Timely
I’ve been working on my new book for the last year, but based on the headlines from the last few…
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Creative Leadership
Is It a Mistake to Pay Church Planters a Full Time Salary?
The largest church my father ever led in Charlotte, North Carolina, was about 400 people. Certainly, we had larger spikes…
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Creative Leadership
The Forgotten Victims of Church Abuse
When a church experiences a crisis, the first priority is to reveal the truth, and if there’s a victim, get…
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