Change and Conflict in Your Congregation (Even If You Hate Both)

by Rev. Anita L. Bradshaw, PhD

2015 · Turner Publishing Company

A warmhearted guidebook to help your church navigate change and channel conflict into a stronger sense of mission and community. Lay leaders, pastors and church staff will be empowered by creative, practical strategies to establish appropriate congregational behavior, offer nonanxious leadership and foster community discussion and discernment.

There’s a Woman in the Pulpit

by Rev. Martha Spong

2015 · SkyLight Paths Publishing

Learn and laugh with these women of the church, bound together by a deep commitment to ministry. Over fifty clergywomen representing fourteen denominations explore their holy—and unflinchingly human—moments as they juggle the sometimes isolating expectations from their congregations and the shared realities, graces and humor of everyday life.