Recently, I heard yet another story of a “centrist” Southern Baptist church calling a pastor who is inevitably going to steer the church sharply to the right. It doesn’t take a Ph.D. in theology to understand this. It only takes…
Finding a pastor today is nothing like it was 30 years ago, consultants caution
One of the biggest challenges facing congregations in pastoral transition is realizing how radically the search process has changed since the turn of the century, according to Bill Wilson, founder of the Center for Healthy Churches. He and his successor,…
Progressive Baptist church announces pastor search
A Baptist church with a nearly 60-year history of challenging the status quo is seeking a new pastor. The Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church, a progressive congregation in Chapel Hill, N.C., affiliated with both the Alliance of Baptists and…
Healthy beginnings matter for pastor search process
In a recent training event for congregational conflict interventionists, one of our CHC team members heard Richard Blackburn, a Lombard Peace Center trainer, say this: “When I look into the history of churches I go into for a conflict intervention,…