Pastoral Leadership
I have written on this topic in the past and I continue to learn more and more each day about leadership. Sometimes I learn by doing and sometimes it’s si...
Tag: Leadership
Lead Like Jesus
In the past, on this blog, I have written about different leadership styles and what it takes to be a leader. There is no better leadership example for on...
The Future of the Church
Yesterday a few parishioners and I went on a sort of pilgrimage to St. Tikhon’s Monastery in Pennsylvania. I have written about my experience at this mona...
Courage in Leadership
One of the fundamental characteristics of a good leader, no, strike that, a great leader is courage. Of all the skills that leaders, especially leaders in the C...
Future of Orthodoxy in America
The Most Blessed JonahArchbishop of WashingtonMetropolitan of All America and Canada If you have been reading these pages you know that the Orthodox Church here...
The Art of Listening
The very first line that St. Benedict wrote in his rule for monastics is “listen.” All of the literature on prayer instructs us that half of prayer is listening...
Followers as Mirrors
What is the best way to gauge the effectiveness of our leadership? I would say it is how the people you lead follow you. There is a quote I heard somewhere, and...
Leaders Take Responsibility
Not everyone lives under the same rules. Sometimes we hold people to a higher standard than others in all that they do and leaders would be included in this gro...
Church Leadership
When one thinks of the Orthodox Church one thinks of many things, worship, theology, etc. the term leadership is not one that springs to mind right away. Oh sur...