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November 2018

November 14, 2018

CBF Podcast: Live from the General Assembly Podcast Stage

The CBF Podcast Stage featured interviews with theologians, church historians, remarkable leaders, and practitioners. Presenting...

October 2018

October 24, 2018

CBF Podcast: A Place At the Table with Maggie Kane

For Maggie Kane, the executive director of A Place At the Table, hospitality is about...

August 2018

August 22, 2018

Six Thoughts on Faith-Based Advocacy

There are matters of dire need in our world that require our attention now. If...

August 09, 2018

CBF Podcast: Exodus Preaching, featuring Kenyatta Gilbert

“Preachers must speak a crucial witness when circumstances of death and degradation touch human life,”...

July 2018

July 17, 2018

CBF Podcast: A Conversation with Father James Martin

Father James Martin has been called the master of translating tough theological matters in the...

June 2018

June 26, 2018

CBF Podcast: Spiritual Defiance, featuring Robin Meyers

“What began as a quiet rebellion of mourners soon grew into a movement that inspired...

May 2018

May 11, 2018

CBF Podcast: Preaching in the Era of Trump, Featuring Wes Allen

This is not the first time a generation of clergy, nor will we certainly be...

May 11, 2018

Faithful Advocacy: Living into the tension

The way forward is to root the long-term advocacy priorities of our congregations and of...

May 09, 2018

Youth Ministry Conversations Podcast

The podcast creates a new community for youth ministers that allows them to exchange their...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

CBF Podcast: Tish Harrison Warren, Priest and Author of The Liturgy of the Ordinary

We sat down with the author of “The Liturgy of the Ordinary” to discuss the...

April 09, 2018

Tormented Pastors

By Ryan Clark On April 13, Netflix will release the movie Come Sunday, and you...

December 2017

December 07, 2017

Podcast: CBF ChurchWorks and a Conversation with Jon Singletary

This episode features the ChurchWorks keynote speaker, Dr. Jon Singletary. Jon is the dean of...

August 2017

August 01, 2017

Podcast: Most Common Mistakes of Church Starts, Part 3

In this conversation, we explore what happens when you fail to lead self, how reframing...

July 2017

July 27, 2017

A Progressing Church

As one of my friends says to church starters and pastors, “The church you pastor...

July 07, 2017

The Synergy of the Spirit

Synergy recognizes the benefits that come when multiple single things work together in unison to...

June 2017

June 12, 2017

Most Common Mistakes of Church Starts (Part 2)

This week’s podcast is the second of a three-part conversation on the most common mistakes...

June 07, 2017

A Reflection of Pentecost 2017 — Acts 2:1–21

Pentecost is a celebration of newness, of re-creation, of renewal of purpose, mission, and calling...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

CBF Church Starts Podcast Conversation: Elizabeth Hagan, Journeying with Others Facing Infertility

We had a conversation with Elizabeth Hagan, author of Birthed: Finding Grace Through Infertility, about...

May 23, 2017

Lisa’s Move

For our friends who have experienced homelessness, their first move after reacquiring shelter is especially...

May 19, 2017

Embracing Our Neighbor

CBF Advocacy provides the means to speak effectively and organize strategically when migrants face the...

May 17, 2017

CBF Church Starts Podcast: A Conversation with Baptist leader Bo Prosser

Sabbaticals can often emerge at just the right time. For Bo Prosser, a global denominational...

May 10, 2017

What do the hungry think of our church programs?

Since I am a pastor and am supposed to be spiritual, I won’t tell you...

April 2017

April 17, 2017

CBF Church Starts Podcast: Healthy Partnership Practices

Check out this new CBF Church Starts Podcast on healthy partnership practices featuring interviews with...

April 10, 2017

Young Adults: Not a Lost Cause

As someone who serves with young adults — and as one myself — I don’t...

March 2017

March 23, 2017

Yes, She Can! Confronting miseducation of the Church

Today, numerous pulpits across various faith traditions continue to lack the ministerial voice and presence...

March 08, 2017

5 Things Megachurches Do Really Well (And You Should Too)

Today, beautiful, inspiring artwork is being created for churches not through statues and paintings but...

February 2017

February 08, 2017

The cost of unity

Last Thursday, February 2, was Groundhog’s Day! But, I’ve been seeing a different kind of...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

Being the Church in the 21st Century

We have the privilege of interacting with people in new ways that are relevant to...

January 20, 2017

Deadheading in the Church

In ministry, we are constantly dreaming up new ideas and adding new events and programs...

January 09, 2017

Is there no fixing this mess? A reflection on the year that was, A prayer for the year that will be

I harbor no illusions that we will make everything right that is wrong. But I...

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