Formative Practices: Intent, Structure, and Content

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  • Joretta Marshall

Abstract

Accountability for formative practices rests with the multiple partners who are involved in religious leadership. Such responsibility for formative practices requires more than a "report in" or  "marking off from a checklist" of practices or disciplines; rather it requires a sustained and engaged conversation within the community abouthow best to enhance the formative practices of those in religious leadership. Co-creating formative practices is the gift of the community. In mutual accountability, we offer the world another model of thinking about what it means to be shaped and formed as human beings created in the image of God.

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Volume 29: Forming Religious Leaders In and For a Diverse World - 2009

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