Resources
Maintaining Personal Resiliency: Lessons Learned from Evangelical Protestant Clergy
This scientific article on clergy and personal resiliency from the Winter 2003 issue of the Journal of Psychology and Theology can be purchased for download for $5.
Read OnlineFirst Call Theological Education Survey
A 2002 study of rostered church leaders in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) researched the effectiveness of clergy formation.
Read OnlineParallel Development: A Pathway for Exploring Change and a New Future in Congregational Life
A 24-page booklet available as a free downloadable PDF explains how to use parallel development to manage change and potential conflict in a congregation.
Read OnlineJust Because You Can Preach Doesn’t Make You a Communicator
A Q & A interview with communication scholar Maria Dixon Hall examines where church communications are failing and how they can be improved.
Read Online10 Steps to Stronger Nonprofit Communications
Marketing and communications consultant Jill Rasmussen provides strategies for more effective nonprofit communications.
Read OnlineExamples of Organizational Communication Networks
This quick article from the online version of the Houston Chronicle describes four different types of organizational communication networks.
Read OnlineOrganizational Communication chapter – open source book on communication studies
Learn key concepts in organizational communication from this chapter in Survey of Communication Study in Wikibooks.
Visit SiteWhat is Organizational Communication?
A 17-minute video by Matt Koschmann, a communications professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, introduces the basics of organizational communication.
Watch OnlineThe Association of Theological Schools
The “In the News” section of the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) website links to online articles about current trends in theological education, from a variety of media sources.
Visit SiteDo We Still Need Seminaries?
The PARSE blog, by two editors of Leadership Journal, raises the question of the necessity of a seminary education and gets a interesting range of responses in the “Comments” section.
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