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Two Good Books

Recently I participated in a Narrative Leadership Retreat with a small group of clergy. We retreated to Elba, Alabama (that’s another blog post!), for four days under the guidance of Steve Graham, Dick Hester, and Kelli Walker-Jones. The experience was fantastic because of the group process that we followed and the sacred stories that we told.  Continue reading

General CBF

Stewarding one’s own story

It’s hard to imagine being a steward of the gospel story unless one is willing to be a steward of one’s own story. That’s the assumption of the Narrative Leadership Retreat sponsored by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. A project of the Initiative for Ministerial Excellence, regional retreats on narrative leadership are meant to encourage ministers to … Continue reading