Teaching Our Story: Narrative Leadership and Pastoral Formation

by Larry A. Golemon

Overview

Teaching Our Story is based on the premise that as congregations become intentional story-forming communities, they can shape the lives of millions of generative, faithful, and civic-minded adults. To do so, a framework that relates narrative work to the full range of congregational life is needed. This book offers such a framework, featuring essays that examine crucial shapers of narrative, outline a course in preaching that addresses crucial questions for today's church leaders, illuminate the creative power of listening to the collective stories of a faith community, and observe what can happen when first-year seminary students are asked to become story brokers -- integrating the stories from their communities with biblical stories, their own personal stories, and the theological doctrines formed within the story of their tradition

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566996440
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	01/31/2010
Series:	Narrative Leadership Collection
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	142
File size:	228 KB

About the Author

Larry A. Golemon is executive director of the Washington Theological Consortium. Larry served on the research team of the Carnegie Foundation's Clergy Education study, was a research associate for the Alban Institute, and directed the Ecumenical Project at Virginia Theological Seminary.