Fall 2025 Vol. 24 No. 2

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Spring 2025 Vol. 24 No. 1

Articles

Introduction to the JRL Spring 2025 Issue 5
Robert K. Martin

The Ghost of Servant Leadership: Power, Performance, and The Illusion Of Virtue
David G. Forney, Kyle J.A. Small

Toward a Paracletic Leadership Framework for Pastoral Ministry With Generation Z in Multicultural US Contexts
Mario Hood

Learning as a Way of Leading: How Learning Shapes Mission in Uncertain Times
Martin Rodriguez, Jinna Sil Lo Jin

Leadership Function as a Bowen Family Systems Theory Concept: How Understanding Leaders’ Functioning Shapes the Understanding of an Organization
Douglas Schonberg

The Digital Pulpit and Media Influencers: Investigating Forms of Christian Leadership on Tiktok
Zachary C. Wooten, Haley Mcdevitt

Book Reviews

Picking Up The Pieces: Leadership After Empire By: Kathleen Mcshane & Elan Babchuck
Reviewed By Lisa M. Hess

Organizational Behavior in Christian Perspective: Theory and Practice for Church and Ministry Leaders By: Franklin A. Markov
Reviewed By Neil Dougall

Evangelical Versus Liturgical?: Defying a Dichotomy By: Melanie C. Ross
Reviewed By Jeff Mingee

Women Called to Catholic Priesthood: From Ecclesial Challenge to Spiritual Renewal By: Sharon Henderson Callahan, Jeanette Rodríguez
Reviewed By David Penno

Disabling Leadership: A Practical Theology for the Broken Body Of Christ
By: Andrew T. Draper, Jody Michele, and Andrew Mae
Reviewed By Andrew Rutledge

Imitating Christ: The Disputed Character of Christian Discipleship By: Luke Timothy Johnson
Reviewed By Sara Stabe

Exception to the Rule: The Surprising Science ff Character-Based Culture, Engagement, and Performance By: Peter J. Rea, James K. Stoller, and Alan Kolp
Reviewed By Scott Szabo

Leadership and Self-Deception: The Secret to Transforming Relationships and Getting Results, 4th Edition By: The Arbinger Institute
Reviewed By Michael Wilson

Leading Through: Activating the Soul, Heart, and Mind of Leadership
By: Kim B. Clark, Jonathan R. Clark, and Erin E. Clark
Reviewed By Lisa Withrow

Power, Agency, and Women in the Mission of God: Interdisciplinary, Intercultural Conversations
Edited By: Susan L. Macros, Vince L. Bantu, and Kirsteen Kimeugene
Reviewed By Michael Young

Fall 2024 Vol. 23 No. 2

Presidential Address and Introduction to the JRL Autumn 2024 Issue: An Invitation to Explore Different Religious Leadership Models by Alicia J. Granholm

Pulling the Individualism Thread: Examining Power, Authority, and Decoloniality in Religious Leadership by Kristina I. Lizardy-Hajbi

Clericalism as a Configuration of Normative Expectations: A Practical Theology Investigation of Leadership for a Postclerical Future by Clara King

Rewilding Religious Leadership:Engaging the “Big Book of Revelation” for the Future by Kara Markell

Synodality and the Move Toward a Collaborative Ecclesial Future by Emily Dykman

Book Reviews

Calling In Context: Social Location And Vocational Formation By: Susan L. Maros, Reviewed By Emily Dykman

Healthy Leadership For Thriving Organizations: Creating Contexts Where People Flourish By: Justin A. Irving, Reviewed By Neil D. Harper

Churches, Cultuers & Leadership: A Practical Theology Of Congregations And Ethnicities,Second Edition By: Mark Lau Branson, Juan F. Martínez, Reviewed By Sara Stabe

When Prophets Preach: Leadership And Thepolitics Of The Pulpit By: Jonathan C. Augustine, Reviewed By David Penno

Spring 2024 Vol. 23 No. 1

Introduction To The 2024 Spring Journal of Religious by Leadership Robert K Martin

Strategies To Retain Volunteers in Churches by Anthony D. Brown

Walk Together Children: Reclaiming The Collective Ethical Leadership Model of Blac 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 Floding, Reviewed by Andrew Ruthledge

Leading While Black: The Intersectionalilty Of Race, Leadership, And God by Torrance J. R. Jones, Reviewed by Michael Wilson

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Fall 2023 Vol. 22 No. 2

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Presidential Address and Introduction To The JRL Autumn 2023 Issue: An Invitation To Reimagine Religious Leadership by Courtny Davis Olds

Layered Crisis: Crisis Leadership As Prophetic Meaning Making by Thomas F. Tumblin & Kristi Calhoun

Reimagining Religious Leadership Through The Social Identity Model by Jack Barentsen

Pilgrim Practice: Reimagining Religious Leadership On Camino De Santiago by Kyle Small

Book Reviews

The Purpose Gap: Empowering Communities Of Color To Find Meaning And Thrive by Patrick B. Reyes, Reviewed by Jack Barentsen

Freeing Congregational Mission: A Practical Vision For Companionship, Cultural Humility, And Co-Development by B. Hunter Farrell with S. Balajiedlang Khyllep, Reviewed by Michael Wilson

Leading Faithful Innovation: Following God Into A Hopeful Future by Dwight Zscheile, Michael Binder, Tessa Pinkstaff, Reviewed by Michael Wilson

The Liminal Loop: Astonishing Stories of Discovery And Hope by Timothy Carson, Reviewed by Lisa Withrow

Spring 2023 Vol. 22 No. 1

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Introduction to the 2023 Spring Journal of Religious by Leadership Robert K Martin

Taking Responsibility: Reframing Christian Leadership by Neil J. Dougall

Vulnerability in Leadership: Its Concrete Expression and the Courage to Embrace It by Chloe Lynch

Embodied Influence: Using a Power Audit to Reflect on the Distribution and Enactment Of Social Power in Group Context by Susan L. Maros and Rob Dixon

Resisting the Moving Sidewalk: Ministry as Christopraxis and Metanoia by John Senior

Book Reviews

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves, Reviewed by Jeff Clawson

Circles in the Stream: Index, Identification and Intertext – Reading and Preaching the Story of Judah in Genesis by Paul E. Koptak, Reviewed by Neil Dougall

Loss and Discovery: What the Torah Can Teach Us about Leading Change by Russell M. Linden, Reviewed by Neil Dougall

Navigating the Future: Traditioned Innovation for Wilder Seas by Ian Parkinson, Reviewed by L. Roger Owens

Normalizing Next: A Post-COVID-19 Resource for Church Leaders by Olu Brown, Reviewed by Andrew Rutledge

The Church After Innovation: Questioning our Obsession with Work, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship by Andrew Root, Reviewed by Thomas F. Tumblin

A Postcolonial Leadership: Asian Immigrant Christian Leadership and its Challenges by Choi Hee An, Reviewed by Michael Youngy

Fall 2022 Vol. 21 No. 2

Presidential Address and Introduction to Autumn 2022. Connection and Community: Leadership in an Age of Alienation and Isolation by Sandra Selby

Leading for Belonging: The Organic Intellectual as Alternative to Evangelical Megachurch Leadership by Phil Allen Jr.

Developing Young Adult Leaders for 48 the Church and the World by Emily A. Dykman

Courageous and Connected: Hospitality Leads the Way in the Digital Age by Laura Murray

Opportunities in Liminal Space for Co-creating Connection and Community in a VUC A World by Lisa R. Withrow

Engaging White Leaders in Racial Justice Work in an Era of Alienation and Isolation by Susan L. Maros, Jessica Vaughan Lower, and Christopher Brooks

How Can We Learn Across Difference? A Conversation ab out Ethical Research and Writing vis-à-vis Identity and Positionality by Robert K. Martin,  Kristina I. Lizardy-Hajbi, Susan J. Dunlap Dale L. Lemke, and Jason A. Miller

Book Reviews

Leading With The Sermon: Preaching As Leadership

By:William H. Willimon

Reviewed by Neil Dougall

Faithful Leaders And The Things That Matter Most

By: Rico Tice

Reviewed by Ricardo P. Moore

Managing The Unexpected: Sustained Performance In A Complex World, 3rd. Ed.

By: Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
Reviewed by Thomas F. Tumblin

Understanding Christian Leadership

By: Ian Parkinson
Reviewed by Alan Wilson

Spring 2022 Vol. 21 No. 1

Book Reviews

Ten Commandments for Church Reform: Memoirs of a Catholic Priest
By: John Wijnaards
Reviewed by Sharon Henderson Callahan

Sustaining Grace: Innovative Ecosystems for New Faith Communities
By: Scott J. Hagley, Karen Rohrer, and Michael Gehrling, editors.
Reviewed by Kevin Long

The Art and Science of Leadership (7th Edition)
By: Afsaneh Nahavandi
Reviewed by David Penno

The Congregation in a Secular Age: Keeping Sacred Time Against the Speed of Modern Life.
By: Andrew Root
Reviewed by Scott Szabo

Leadership, God’s Agency & Disrupt ions: Confronting Modernity’s Wager.
By: Mark Lau Branson and Alan J. Roxburgh
Reviewed by Michael Wilson

Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps: How to Thrive in Complexity
By: Jennifer Garvey Berger
Reviewed by Lisa Withrow

Living at the Next Level: Leader’s Edition
By: Courtney McBath
Reviewed by Michael D. Young

Fall 2018 Vol. 17 No. 2

Presidential Address, 2018 – The Formation and Teaching of Religious Leadership:
A Sacred and Complex Calling in Complex Times by Terri Martinson Elton

Adventures into Digital Teaching, Learning, and Formation: A Case Study from Wartburg Theological Seminary by Kristine Stache and Craig L. Nessan

Surfacing Emotions to Teach Leadership by Rob Muthiah

I’m Just American: Facilitating Seminary Students Reflections Regarding the Impact of Whiteness on Vocational Formation by Susan L. Maros

Faltering Steps: Imagining Our Way Across the Seminary-Church Divide by Mark Miller-McLemore

Coming off the Tracks: Identifying (and Avoiding) Derailing Behaviors by John L. Bennett and Julie M. Gawle

Spring 2018 Vol. 17 No. 1

This volume was not published

Fall 2012 Vol. 11 No. 2

The Ecology of Vocation by Scott Cormode, Emily Click, Terri Elton, Theresa Latini, Susan Macos, and Lisa Withrow

The Teaching of Leadership by Norma Cook Everist

Learning Religious Leadership In Situ by Will Houts and David R. Sawyer

2012 Fall Introduction by Kristine Stache

Insisto Rector: Provocative Play for Serious Leadership Learning by Russell W. West and Robert K. Martin

Fall 2002 Vol. 1 No. 2