Larry A. Golemon, Editor, Teaching Our Story: Narrative Leadership and Pastoral Formation. Alban Institute, 2009.
Referenced in: Narrative Leadership
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
This is one of several works on Narrative Leadership published by the Alban Institute. The focus on this volume is on the role of story in the way pastors preach and teach.
Narrative Leadership reflects the belief that God’s story is woven with divine care in our stories, and that a leader called to work with others must come to grips with the story God is unfolding in his/her life over against living the stories that others write for us. One can then listen more appreciatively to the storied history of those in the congregation and discern why God has put them together to unfold his continuing story in each of them.
From the Publisher
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
About the Author
Rev. Dr. Larry A. Golemon, an ordained Presbyterian minister, is a research associate for the Alban Institute. He is a regular consultant in seminary education and recently directed the Ecumenical Project at Virginia Theological Seminary. Prior to joining the Alban staff, Larry served on the research team of the Carnegie Foundation’s Clergy Education study, published as Educating Clergy: Teaching Practices and Pastoral Imagination.
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