Thanks to Dwight Zscheile and Alicia Granholm for inviting me to be a guest on Faith+Lead's Pivot Podcast at Luther Seminary!  

The episode is full of great stories of the possibilities (and ch...

I presented my first academic paper at the Academy of Religious Leadership last week.

The conference was on the theme of moving beyond clericalism into more empowering models of religious leade...

From Problem-Solving to Being the Body of Christ

 By Clara King

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This paper was presented at the Fall Gathering of Grantees from Trinity Chur...

My work teaching adaptive leadership in the United Church of Canada is funded by the Leadership Fund at Trinity Church Wall Street.  

Twice a year, the current grantees gather together.  Thi...

One of the things I teach in my course Leading Adaptively is how leaders can find their power and use it for good.  But but but, I can feel you asking, don’t leaders already have a lot of power, and i...

What is Adaptive Leadership?

 Hi there, I’m Clara, and I teach Adaptive Leadership in the Church.  Yes, I hear you saying, but what is Adaptive Leadership?  

Adaptive Leadership is a leadership appr...

Back in the Fall of '21 my good friend Rev. Dr. Kyle Norman invited me on his blog to talk about spiritual discouragement and encouragement in congregations.  What a great conversation we had together...

Let’s get right to the big question of this moment: "How do you lead a congregation out of the pandemic and into the new normal?"

The first thing I need to say to you is this: if your congregation st...