If half of your leaders were doing the same thing every day, would you provide them with training to do that thing efficiently? In our recent national survey of church leaders on attitudes towards work, 51% of surveyed leaders said that they started their workday by checking their emails. While...

Thanks for tuning in to this week's unSeminary podcast. We’re excited to be talking with Vivienne Bechtold, the Director of Studio and Leadership Development at Crossroads Church in Ohio. Crossroads has been one of the fastest growing churches in the country for several years, but this growth hasn't happened without...

Executive pastors live at the intersection of vision and execution. They spend their days trying to balance the immense call that God has put on the church and the limited resources your church has for making that vision a reality. This tension creates an incredible amount of stress for executive...

Thanks for joining in for this week’s unSeminary podcast. We’re talking with Jenn Clauser, the Director of Communications at Coker United Methodist Church in San Antonio, Texas. She’s with us today to dig deeper into online church and how to integrate it as a core part of our mission to...

Are you wondering why those Facebook ads that you've been running for the last few months don't seem to be translating into people connecting, neither in person nor online? Have you tried multiple flyer drops in your neighborhood and you're desperately hoping that maybe one person would show up, but...

You have no doubt heard all the doomsayers saying that what we've experienced in the last year is beckoning a new age of disengagement in your church. You've probably heard people say that somewhere around a third of our people have left the church and won't be returning. It seems...

This has been a strange season to be working in the local church.  Just a few months ago, we all made the pivot to entirely digital and that felt like the biggest change in our history of leading in the local church. At that point, we thought it would only...

If you've been paying attention to our world over the last few months, you’ve no doubt seen some dramatic economic news.  You've probably seen things that made you wonder about the future of your church. You may be worried about what might come next.  We’ve seen the initial impact that...

Have you been listening to the buzz about artificial intelligence in the broader culture?  Artificial intelligence used to seem like one of those distant technologies that is always five years down the road; however, it is already creeping into our daily lives. Whether it's asking Siri to text your wife...

Welcome back to the unSeminary podcast. You’re going to be rewarded for tuning in to today’s conversation with Phil Bowdle, the Creative Arts Pastor at West Ridge Church in the Greater Atlanta area. West Ridge started in 2002 and has since planted more than 150 churches all over the world....