Promise and Peril: Understanding and Managing Change and Conflict in Congregations

This research-based book helps congregations understand the origins and impact of change within their community, emphasizing organizational theory, and contains suggestions on how to address change.

Offerings

surveys and interviews with congregations, organizational theory, forming a reference committee, worship as an expression of culture

Best For

clergy and lay leaders of any faith tradition

Cost

purchase as a book or e-book

Suggested Uses

• Address internal congregational change in a variety of settings by applying insight from interviews with real-world, contemporary congregations, drawing advice from their challenges and successes.