Walrath, Douglas Alan

Douglas A. Walrath, now retired, is former director of the Small-Church Leadership Program at Bangor Theological Seminary. Walrath was general editor of the "Small Church in Action" series published by Abingdon.

Leading Churches through Change, Abingdon, 1979
Developing Your Small Church's Potential (with Carl S. Dudley), Judson Press, 1988

Weems, Lovett

President and Professor of Church Leadership, St Paul School of Theology, Kansas City (United Methodist).

Church Leadership: Vision, Team, Culture, and Integrity, Abingdon, 1993
Leadership in the Wesleyan Spirit, Abingdon, 1999

Wheatley, Margaret (Meg)

Meg Wheatley (click for website) is a partner in the consulting and education firm Kellner-Rogers & Wheatley, Inc., and helps lead the Berkana Institute, a nonprofit educational and research foundation seeking to discover new organizational forms. She has experienced organizational life as a consultant, an executive, and an educator.

Leadership and the New Science, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco, 2001

Whetham, Paul & Libby

Paul is lecturer in Psychology Dept of University of South Australia, specialising in Integration of psychology and religion, Clergy loneliness, stress and coping , values, ethics and malpractice among helping professionals. Libby Whetham is a therapist and group worker who has served overseas as a Christian missionary. Hard to be Holy comes out of PhD research which involved detailed interviewing of 65 clergy from five denominations in southern NSW, Australia.

Hard to be Holy, Open Books, Adelaide, 2001

Whitehead, James D. & Evelyn Eaton

Dr. James Whitehead is a pastoral theologian and historian of religion concerned with issues of contemporary spirituality, ministerial leadership, and theological method in ministry.. Dr. Evelyn Whitehead is a developmental and social psychologist who writes and lectures of adult maturity, the dynamics of leadership, and the social analysis of community and parish life. Together they lead Whitehead Associates, U.S.A.. They are Associate Faculty of the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University of Chicago.

Shadows of the Heart: Spirituality of the Painful Emotions, 1996
The Promise of Partnership: A Model for Collaborative Ministry,
Christian Life Patterns: The Psychological Challenges and Religious Invitations of Adult Life, 1992
Community of Faith: Crafting Christian Communities Today,
Method in Ministry: Theological Reflection and Christian Ministry, 1980
The Emerging Laity: Returning Leadership to the Community of Faith, 1988

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