Beschreibung:
Living Our Story explores how good narrative workthe retrieval, construction, and performance of valued storiestakes place in ministry. Authors Larry A. Golemon, Lee Ramsey, N. Graham Standish, Tim Shapiro, Carol Johnson, Mike Mather, Niles Elliot Goldstein, and Diana Butler Bass examine this question from a variety of perspectives, including the role of the pastor or rabbi as narrative leader, the sacred and mundane stories that shape congregational life and identity, storytelling as a means of community building, and story sharing as a practice of hospitality. Through the stories they themselves tell, these authors show how stories witness to Gods presence in the unfolding of human life, and how the best leaders craft stories that reveal how God is at work among the people and inspire them to become a part of this larger story.
Living Our Story explores how good narrative work—the retrieval, construction, and performance of valued stories—takes place in ministry. Authors Larry A. Golemon, Lee Ramsey, N. Graham Standish, Tim Shapiro, Carol Johnson, Mike Mather, Niles Elliot Goldstein, and Diana Butler Bass examine this question from a variety of perspectives, including the role of the pastor or rabbi as narrative leader, the sacred and mundane stories that shape congregational life and identity, storytelling as a means of community building, and story sharing as a practice of hospitality. Through the stories they themselves tell, these authors show how stories witness to God's presence in the unfolding of human life, and how the best leaders craft stories that reveal how God is at work among the people and inspire them to become a part of this larger story.
Preface
Larry A. Golemon
Chapter 1: The Practice of Narrative Leadership in Ministry
Larry A. Golemon
Chapter 2: The Continuous Thread of Revelation: Pastoral Memoirs and the Narrative Imagination
G. Lee Ramsey Jr.
Chapter 3: Pastor as Narrative Leader
N. Graham Standish
Chapter 4: The Sacred Value of Congregational Stories
Tim Shapiro
Chapter 5: Story Sharing and the Practice of Hospitality as Ingredients in Effective Leadership
Carol Johnston
Chapter 6: Have Conversations and Have Faith: Trading “Us and Them” for “All of Us”
Mike Mather
Chapter 7: Downtown Judaism—in Our Own Image
Niles Elliot Goldstein
Chapter 8: Living the Story
Diana Butler Bass
Contributors