Eighteen senior leaders of Protestant churches and national ecumenical agencies reflect on church leadership. The result of a seminar convened by the Hartford Seminary's Center for Social and Religious Research in 1989 in Hartford, Connecticut, this book provides a variety of contributors' reflections on church and social issues and their hopes for the future.
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This book grows out of the 1989-92 Hartford Seminary Senior Executive Seminar, which brought together 18 leaders of mainline Protestant denominations and ecumenical agencies to reflect on their experiences and lessons they would like to pass on to future generations of church leaders. The group's ecumenical breadth and diversity of experience make for useful documentation not only of church leadership but also of leadership in general. The book includes important reflection on the supposed split between evangelicals and social activists in mainline Protestantism, on the future of ecumenism, and on the steady decline in membership experienced by mainline Protestant churches for the past three decades. Most of the book is made up of interviews, though there are also reflections for successors written by most participants. The book is best read with seminar participant Will Herzfeld's advice in mind: bureaucracies are "disposable toys" that come and go, but the church that stays is made up of people who are to be taken seriously. Where the interviews and reflections turn to conversations, readers will meet people, not bureaucrats, in these pages. Steve Schroeder
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