In Trust MagazineIssuesSpring 2025

Feature Articles

On My Mind
Smarter questions
The how and why of discernment
By Amy L. Kardash
The questions we fail to ask are the ones that will get us into trouble, writes In Trust Center President Amy Kardash.
On Your Mind
On Your Mind | Letters to the Editor
Your thoughts about strategy, adaptive leadership, and student needs.
I appreciated Heather Grennan Gary’s recent article on shared governance and the perspectives provided (“Shared Governance is Smooth Like Jazz,” Autumn 2024).
The Star
A heart to break through
With a new grant, Fuller Youth Institute launches a movement to bring young people back to faith and home to Church.
By Trish Shea
With the help of a Lilly Endowment Inc. grant, Fuller Theological Seminary is trying to reach a new generation of student.
The Star
Podcast picks | From our ears to yours
From our ears to yours: The best springtime podcast picks
By Karen Stiller
These podcasts provide a basket full of podcasts just right for the season.
The Star
Present Moment | A posture of possibility
How to energize a public square moment
By Rev. Andrea C. White, Ph.D.
We need theological education more than ever because of the context students find themselves in, writes Andrea White.
The Star
More like a relay race than a marathon
A new report from Auburn Studies considers why leadership is turning over so fast, as well as how leaders and institutions can succeed
By Matt Hufman
A revived Auburn Studies considers the issue of leadership turnover and how schools can consider that for the future.
The Star
All People Considered: Balcony Time
Leadership Education’s Reflective Leadership program provides grants for structured reflection
Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School has plans to grants to leaders to provide the time and space to reflect and discern.
The Star
Future Promise | Expanding the table
How to respond to a changing landscape
By Rev. John Huh, Ph.D.
There’s hope for theological education, but there is a need for recalibration, writes John Huh.
The Guardian
Planting seeds of generosity
How boards can cultivate givers and help people share the joy of their school’s mission
By Matt Hufman
Twenty-five years ago, Rebekah Burch Basinger and the late Thomas Jeavons research by the Association of Theological Schools shows what study authors call a “misalignment” between student training in schools and what churches and workplaces need.
The Guardian
The Census | Time to Meet?
Governing boards and advisory bodies need the time to do the work, but do they have it?
Data from the In Trust Center’s Governance Initiative shows how often boards meet to try to accomplish the work.
The Guardian
Remark(able) | For Board Reflections
A place and space for AI in God’s mission
The Rev. Tay Moss considers the role of artificial intelligence. What do you think?
The Guardian
Leadership | Boards and Libraries
A chief librarian advocates for greater board engagement.
By Trish Shea
The author of a book on running a theological library and a librarian, Kris Veldheer knows the value of the library to a school and wants others to know that as well.
The Guardian
Institutional Mergers
Use this thought and question to help spur a discussion about your board.
The Culture
Music | Round Midnight
The practice of spiritual rest, embedded in jazz music
By Heather Grennan Gary
When Covid brought the world to a halt in 2020, Julian Davis Reid experienced one of his own.
The Culture
Relics | To make our joy complete
Thirty years on, the painstaking artistry of the Saint John’s Bible still inspires awe and reverence
By Heather Grennan Gary
The Saint John’s Bible, the first of its type in 500 years, stands its own test of time.
The Culture
Books & Films | Wise men, fools, and other stories
From theology to good stories well told, these are books and movies to put on your list this spring
By Heather Grennan Gary
A new look at some saints, an American theologian reconsidered, and some movies to watch.
The Crossing
Perspective | From the ashes, a coming joy
The season of Lent can provide space to consider new growth
The ashes of the Lenten season provide a remembrance of both the bad and the good.
The Crossing
Changing Scenes
New leaders and new board chairs
New leaders in theological education.
The Sign
The Sign | Scattering the seeds of hope
In uncertain times, the blessing of agriculture reminds us to look ahead
By Matt Hufman
Matt Hufman considers a farmer’s adage: Plant seeds and pray.

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