Larry A. Golemon, Editor, Living Our Story: Narrative Leadership and Congregational Culture. Alban Institute, 2010.
Referenced in: Narrative Leadership
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
This is one of several works on Narrative Leadership published by the Alban Institute. The focus on this volume is on the role of story in the way pastors shape congregational life, identity, and outreach.
Narrative Leadership reflects the belief that God’s story is woven with divine care in our stories, and that a leader called to work with others must come to grips with the story God is unfolding in his/her life over against living the stories that others write for us. One can then listen more appreciatively to the storied history of those in the congregation and discern why God has put them together to unfold his continuing story in each of them.
From the Publisher
Living Our Story explores how good narrative work – the retrieval, construction, and performance of valued stories – takes place in ministry. Authors Larry Golemon, Lee Ramsey, Graham Standish, Tim Shapiro, Carol Johnson, Mike Mather, Niles Elliot Goldstein, and Diana Butler Bass examine this question from a variety of perspectives, including the role of the pastor or rabbi as narrative leader, the sacred and mundane stories that shape congregational life and identity, storytelling as a means of community building, and story sharing as a practice of hospitality. Through the stories they themselves tell, these authors show how stories witness to God’s presence in the unfolding of human life, and how the best leaders craft stories that reveal how God is at work among the people and inspire them to become a part of this larger story
About the Author
Rev. Dr. Larry A. Golemon, an ordained Presbyterian minister, is a research associate for the Alban Institute. He is a regular consultant in seminary education and recently directed the Ecumenical Project at Virginia Theological Seminary. Prior to joining the Alban staff, Larry served on the research team of the Carnegie Foundation’s Clergy Education study, published as Educating Clergy: Teaching Practices and Pastoral Imagination.
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