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Reading on Leading : Reviews of Christian Leadership Books

Click on the button or the title to see the review.  All the books we review here, we would recommend! We'd love to receive your comments on the books we've reviewed, or any reviews of other leadership titles that you've read and would recommend to other leaders - please do e-mail us at [email protected] with a write-up of your favourite.

Book of the Month

Leadership and Oversight - New models for episcopal ministry

by Malcolm Grundy

 

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Other Books

Resourcing Mission - Practical Theology for Changing Churches

by Helen Cameron

 

Resourcing Mission - Practical Theology for Changing Churches, Helen Cameron. p 192, ISBN 978-0334041467, 16.99.

Book review by Malcolm Grundy click here

 

Jesus and Politics

by Alan Storkey

 

Jesus and Politics, Alan Storkey. p 336, ISBN 978-0801027840, 16.99.

Book review by John Nelson click here

 

 

LEADING TEAMS IN LARGER CHURCHES by Paul Beasley-Murray 

Published online by the TEAL Trust 2010

 

Read the whole book here - Book

Reshaping the mission of Methodism: A diaconal church approach 

Edited by David Clark - Church in the Market Place Publications

 

Edited by Deacon Dr David Clark and published this year (2010) by Church in the Market Place Publications and obtainable from Deacon Dr David Clark at Hill View, Burton Close Drive, Bakewell, Derbyshire DE45 1BG price �10 (post paid).

Book review by John Nelson click here

 

By One Spirit

by Lorraine Cavanagh

 

By One Spirit, Lorraine Cavanagh. Peter Lang AG, p 273, ISBN 978-3-03911-389-7, 35.00.

Book review by Malcolm Grundy click here

 

Basil Hume: A Anniversary Portrait

by William Charles

 

Basil Hume: A Anniversary Portrait, William Charles, Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd, p 256, �12.99.

Book review by Malcolm Grundy click here

 

Understanding Leadership

Parish Priests; for the sake of the Kingdom

by Robin Greenwood

Parish Priests; for the sake of the Kingdom, Robin Greenwood, SPCK, ISBN 978 0281 05538 8, Price �14.99. 

A practical guide for churches wanting to navigate their way forward. Greenwood explores concepts of episkope as they relate to the life of the local congregation and to the work if the minister. Robin Greenwood is Vicar of Monkseaton, in Whitley Bay in the Diocese of Newcastle. He is also the author of Transforming Priesthood (2002) and The Ministry Team Handbook (2000) and Local Ministry (2006)

Book review by Malcolm Grundy click here

 

 

Transforming Conflict

 by Eolene Boyd-MacMillan and Sara Savage

 

Transforming Conflict, Eolene Boyd-MacMillan and Sara Savage, Foundation for Church Leadership, 2008, ISBN 978 0 9550573 3 5 Price �17.99

The definitive book which explores how conflict can be transformed by trained processes of listening in depth. Through the processes described in this book those with fundamental differences of principle can be helped to work together. The book describes how 30 senior church leaders learned to develop their ministries of responsibility using this method. The authors are members of the Psychology of Religion Research Group in the University of Cambridge.

Book review by David Rossdale, Bishop of Grimsby click here

 

 

What�s new in Church Leadership

by Malcolm Grundy

 

What�s new in Church Leadership, Malcolm Grundy, Canterbury Press, 2007, ISBN 978 1 85311 799 2, Price �16.99.

This book introduces a range of concepts of Christian leadership, looks at team building and collaborative ministry. An essential introduction to leading and developing your congregation. New Shape church is explored as is Leading from the edges. Also explored is how to us a consultant or mentor and how to lead and introduce change.

Book review by Robin Greenwood click here

 

and

Disputed Truth by Hans K�ng

A Broad Place by J�rgen Moltmann

 

A Broad Place: An Autobiography, J�rgen Moltmann, SCM Canterbury Press, 2007, p 406, �29.99.

Disputed Truth: Memoirs II, Hans K�ng, Continuum, 2008, p 556, �30.00.

Book review by Malcolm Grundy click here

 

 

 

 

and

How to be a creative church leader by John Nelson

Creative church leadership by Charles B. Handy (Author) J. Adair (Editor) J Nelson (Editor)

 

How to be a creative church leader:a Modem Handbook, John Nelson, SCM Canterbury Press, 2008, p 288, �17.99.

 

Creative Church Leadership, Charles B. Handy (Author) J. Adair (Editor) J Nelson (Editor), SCM Canterbury Press, p 192, �14.99.

 

Book reviews  by Anton Muller, Bruce Duncan and Stephen Cottrell here

and

In Sickness and power by David Owen

The Hubris Syndrome by David Owen

In Sickness and Power, David Owen, Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2009, p 448, �14.99

The Hubris Syndrome: Bush, Blair and the Intoxication of Power, David Owen, Politico's Publishing Ltd, 2007, p 160, �8.99

Book review by Malcolm Grundy


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