Leadership and Oversight: New Models for Episcopal Ministry

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An examination of the role and work of bishops for today and tomorrow, exploring how ministries of great responsibility might shape the future. It is an examination of leadership in episcopal churches. It describs the pitfalls and temptations of power by analyzing the responsibilities of leadership.

Canon Malcolm Grundy was Director of the Foundation for Church Leadership (until March 2009, when he became a Consultant with Live-Wires Associates). He has been variously Team Rector of Huntingdon, Archdeacon of Craven (Bradford), Director of Training (London) and Senior Industrial Missioner (Sheffield). He is a Consultant and trainer with Avec (Director), Edward King Institute for Ministry Development (Founder Editor of the journal Ministry), Chair of MODEM (Managerial and Organizational Disciplines for the Enhancement of Ministry) and Non Executive Director of GJ Palmer (Publishers of the Church Times). He is the author of Light in the City: Stories of the Church Urband Fund (Canterbury Press, 1990); An Unholy Conspiracy: the Separation of Church and Industry since the Reformation (Canterbury Press, 1992); Evangelisation through the Adult Catechumenate (Grove, 1991; also translated into Swedish as Om Vuxansvag In I Forsamlingen; Verbum, 1992); Community Work: A Handbook for Volunteer Groups and Local Churches (Cassell/Mowbray/Continuum, 1995); The Parchmore Partnership (ed.), Chester House Publications, 1995; Understanding Congregations: A new shape for the local church (Cassell/Mowbray/Continuum, 1998); Management and Ministry (1997) and Managing, Leading, Ministering (March 1999), contributor and editorial adviser (both Canterbury Press); Faith on the Way (Grundy and Ball; Cassell/Mowbray/Continuum, 2000); What they don't teach you at theological college (Canterbury Press, 2003); contributor to Creative Church Leadership (MODEM/Canterbury Press, 2004); What's New in Church Leadership? (Canterbury Press, 2007); contributor to Breaking the Mould of Christendom, a symposium (Epworth Press, 2008); Transforming Conflict (ed.), (FCL, 2008)

'In this insightful and refreshing review of Episcopal leadership and oversight, Malcolm Grundy does not allow himself to be distracted by the highly visible and divisive debates concerning the gender, sexual orientation and lifestyle of bishops.' -- Rural Theology Review In many ways this book is an account of already changing patterns of episcopal leadership, and one that I found ultimately encouraging. Not only bishops should read it, but clergy and lay people too, especially those who are keen to learn what makes episcopal Churches distinctive. -- Church Times