Pastoral ministry is fraught with difficulties, risks, and temptations. If youre a shepherd, youre a leader. That means defining the realities your group is facing, knowing what resources you have, ...

Missional communities seek to broaden our understanding of what it means to be a local church. After four years of seminary and a brief stint as a campus pastor at one of the largest churches in ...

Steve Mullin is an unusual Catholic leader -- a parish life director widely viewed as the de facto pastor of All Saints Parish in Hayward, Calif. -- in a most unusual setting. It was an unusual bishop ...

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