Volume 25, Number 1 | Spring 2026
Journal of Religious Leadership
Here’s what you’ll find in the latest issue of the JRL.
Articles
Robert K. Martin
Frameworks Toward Post/Decolonial Pastoral Leaderships
Kristina I. Lizardy-Hajbi
Processes Toward Post/Decolonial Pastoral Leaderships
Kristina I. Lizardy-Hajbi
Liderazgo Mestizo/Mestizo Leadership: Relational Cross-Cultural Leadership for the Borderlands
Martin Rodriguez
Clericalism as a Configuration of Normative Expectations: A Practical Theology Investigation of Leadership for a Postclerical Future
Clara King
How Can We Learn Across Difference? A Conversation about Ethical Research and Writing vis-à-vis Identity and Positionality
Robert K. Martin, Kristina I. Lizardy-Hajbi, Susan J. Dunlap, Dale L. Lemke, Jason A. Miller
How an Under-resourced Seminary Becomes Missionally Indispensable
Rene (Chengyuan) Guo
Book Reviews
Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good by: Steven Garber
Reviewed by Thomas W. Baran
A Theology of Authority: Rethinking Leadership in the Church by: Christa L. McKirland
Reviewed by Neil Dougall
Imagination: A Manifesto by: Ruha Benjamin
Reviewed by Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi
Another Way: Living and Leading Change on Purpose by: Stephen Lewis, Matthew Wesley Williams, and Dori Grinenko Baker
Reviewed by Andrew Rutledge
Becoming a Future-Ready Church: 8 Shifts to Encourage and Empower the Next Generation of Leaders by: Daniel Yang, Adelle Banks, and Warren Bird
Reviewed by Thomas Tumblin