Introduction
to Failure of
Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix personal reflection about Friedman "Staffing
Changes Impact Emotional Functioning in the Workplace" David
Loar's former professor who puts forward a unique
view from family systems theory around triangling - that in the
triangle of clergy, Biblical text and the congregation too often the clergy puts themself or
is placed by the congregation in the path of the text. Edwin Friedman
The Bridge short story
article on family systems and business
- Friedman's theory
articles from Larry Matthews website on church
as family system
"Ministering to Congregations as Family
Systems"
a case study of a business situation
using Friedman's family systems theory
second case study "Leadership
Principle: Focus on Strength, not Pathology"
article "Outbreak! How to stop a virus
from spreading in your church."
article on issues related "Why Some Churches Grow While Others Decline"
article "The Preacher, The Text, and The
People" by Walter Brueggemann,
case study in family
systems theory of a congregation
