Volume 23, Number 1 | Spring 2024
Journal of Religious Leadership
Here’s what you’ll find in the latest issue of the JRL.
Articles
The Spring 2024 JRL speak from a variety of perspectives about major aspects of religious life in congregations. Each offers life-giving practices by which communities can become more faithful, hopeful, and loving, and we, in turn, are fortified for the struggle and inevitable suffering ahead.
Introduction by Robert K Martin, editor
Strategies to Retain Volunteers in Churches by Anthony D. Brown
Walk Together Children: Reclaiming the Collective Ethical Leadership Model of Black Churches through Leadership-as-Social Ethic by Larry T. Crudup
A Follower Perspective on Followership in the Congregation by Robert Lilleaasen
Theologically Analyzing Secular Leadership Theory: Evidence of Pelagius’s Teachings in the Servant Leadership of Robert Greenleaf by Jason B. Palmer
Book Reviews
The Visual Preacher: Proclaiming an Embodied Word By: Steve Thomason, Reviewed by Neil Dougall
The Three-Dimensional Leader: A Biblical, Spiritual & Practical Guide To Christian Leadership By: Rod Dempsey, Dave Earley, and Adam McClendon, Reviewed by Robert Knapp
Adaptive Church: Collaboration and Community in a Changing World By: Dustin D. Benac, Reviewed by David Penno
Explore: Vocational Discovery in Ministry of Discovery and Hope By: Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi and Matthew Folding, Reviewed by Andrew Rutledge
Leading While Black: The Intersectionality of Race, Leadership, and God By: Torrance J.R. Jones Reviewed by Michael Wilson