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Leadership helped Corey MacPherson transition to a new role.</p> <a href="i-needed-more-leadership-education/">Learn More »</a> </div></div></li></ul></div></div> </div> </div> <div id="home-middle"> <div id="home-news"> <div id="wrapper"><div id="container"> <ul> <li class="description"> <h1><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160222163401/http://leadership.divinity.duke.edu/what-we-offer/">Training and Learning Opportunities</a></h1> We design educational services, develop intellectual resources, and facilitate networks of institutions. </li> <li> <div style="display: none;">Denominational Leadership</div> <div class="textwidget"><h2><a href="/web/20160222163401/http://leadership.divinity.duke.edu/what-we-offer/programs/denominational-leadership/">Denominational Leadership</a></h2> <p>An ecumenical, four-day educational event designed for people transitioning from parish ministry to executive-level positions within denominational governing bodies.</p> <a class="link" 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This training program supports faith-based organizations and people of faith who wish to gain expertise in fundraising principles and practices. </p> <a class="link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160222163401/http://leadership.divinity.duke.edu/what-we-offer/programs/executive-certificate-in-religious-fundraising/">Learn More »</a></div> </li> <div id="clear"></div> </ul> </div></div> </div> <div id="home-foundation"> <div id="wrapper"><div id="container"> <div id="foundation-image"> <div style="display: none;">foundation-image-300×200</div><img width="344" height="229" alt="foundation-image-300×200" class="attachment-full" style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160222163401im_/http://leadership.divinity.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/FOCLprogram_insetpicture_144-1.jpg"/> </div> <div class="textwidget"><div id="foundation-content"> <h1><a href="/web/20160222163401/http://leadership.divinity.duke.edu/what-we-offer/programs/foundation-of-christian-leadership/">FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP</a></h1> <p>Join a learning community to engage in self-discovery and take part in experiences and activities from multiple disciplines such as the arts, nature and theology that will help you become a transformative leader of your Christian institution. </p> </div><div id="clear"></div> <a class="button" href="/web/20160222163401/http://leadership.divinity.duke.edu/what-we-offer/programs/foundation-of-christian-leadership/">Learn more »</a></div> </div></div> </div> <div id="home-questions"> <div id="wrapper"><div id="container"> <ul> <li class="description"> <h1><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160222163401/http://leadership.divinity.duke.edu/questions-we-answer">Questions<br/> We Answer</a></h1> We know that you grapple with many difficult questions as a Christian leader. We want to help. Complex concerns about ministry can’t be fully addressed here, of course, but we provide a starting point for engaging the deep issues. </li> <li> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160222163401/http://leadership.divinity.duke.edu/category/questions/christian-leadership/">Christian Leadership</a></h3> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160222163401/http://leadership.divinity.duke.edu/what-is-distinctly-christian-about-being-a-christian-leader/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to What is distinctly Christian about being a Christian leader?">What is distinctly Christian about being a Christian leader?</a></h2> <p>How do my Christian convictions shape the way that I lead? It is the end — the goal, the purpose, the telos — that shapes Christian leadership and makes it most distinctively Christian. Our end is to cultivate thriving communities that bear witness to the inbreaking reign of God that Jesus announces and embodies in all that we do and are. </p> <a class="link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160222163401/http://leadership.divinity.duke.edu/what-is-distinctly-christian-about-being-a-christian-leader/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to What is distinctly Christian about being a Christian leader?">Learn More »</a> <li> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160222163401/http://leadership.divinity.duke.edu/category/questions/institutions/">Institutions</a></h3> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160222163401/http://leadership.divinity.duke.edu/how-can-institutions-best-be-kept-institutionally-strong-and-focused-on-their-essential-missions/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to How can institutions best be kept institutionally strong and focused on their essential missions?">How can institutions best be kept institutionally strong and focused on their essential missions?</a></h2> <p>By thinking in a way that holds the past and future in tension, not in opposition. 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