July 15, 2007
TRANSITIONS: Facing the Facts of Transition
By Darrel Rowland If there”s one organization that should realize this life doesn”t last forever, it ought to be the church, says Russell Crabtree. But you wouldn”t know it from churches” lack of planning, especially for leadership transitions. “We live in absolute denial of the fact that the tenure of our leaders is going to come to an end,” said Crabtree, co-author of The Elephant in the Boardroom: Speaking the Unspoken About Pastoral Transitions. “We really don”t have the structures that encourage this kind of thinking. We have a mind-set about the clergy that they are like parental figures. Well,
