Marty Canaday and Israel Galindo have a support blog for readers of Planning for Christian Education Formation (Chalice Press, 2010). You can visit the site here, read their author interview, and ask questions about applying the book in you context. You can visit the site here.

More on why change comes hard at the Perspectives on Congregational Leadership blog. Here’s an excerpt:

One phenomena of the power of homeostasis is that whenever a leader attempts to bring about change he or she will most certainly encounter sabotage. While we can find some comfort in the notion that reactivity is unimaginative, and therefore predictable, sabotage has a thousand faces. The fun thing about sabotage (if one can be non-reactive about it), is that while we can expect it, we will always be surprised at the forms it takes.

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