A World of Difference

Tara Beth Leach is a pastor at Christ Church of Oak Brook in the western suburbs of Chicago. She previously served as senior pastor of First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena (“PazNaz”) in Southern California and has pastored in Illinois and New York. She is a graduate of Olivet Nazarene University and Northern Theological Seminary. She is a regular writer for Missio Alliance and writes and speaks widely about women in ministry and church leadership. She is the author of Emboldened, Radiant Church, and Forty Days on Being a Six. She has two beautiful and rambunctious sons, and has been married to the love of her life, Jeff, since 2006.

Visit her website and read her blog at tarabethleach.com.

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Danielle Strickland is a Canadian spiritual leader, justice advocate, communicator, peacemaker and author whose aggressive compassion has served people firsthand in countries all over the world. From establishing justice departments and church plants, to launching global anti-trafficking initiatives, to creating new initiatives to mobilize people towards transformational living. Danielle trains, advocates, and inspires people to live differently through initiatives like: Amplify Peace, Brave Global, Infinitum and Women's Speaker Collective. https://www.daniellestrickland.com/ Her latest book released in 2020, "Better Together: How Women and Men Can Heal the Divide and Work Together to Transform the Future", her podcast is listened to by thousands globally, and closer to home, she’s on the teaching team at The Meeting House. Currently based in Toronto, Canada, Danielle is the proud mom of 3 boys, wife to Stephen, and as an enneagram 7, has been affectionately called the "ambassador of fun". @daniellejstrickland @djstrickland /DanielleJStrickland The Danielle Strickland Podcast CONTACT / Katie at [email protected] 

Danielle references the book Willful Blindness as one that helped her see how many stay in toxic church cultures.

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Dr. Diane Langberg is globally recognized for her 47 years of clinical work with trauma victims. She has trained caregivers on six continents in responding to trauma and to the abuse of power. She also directs her own counseling practice in Jenkintown, PA, Diane Langberg, Ph.D. & Associates, which includes seventeen therapists with multiple specialties. Dr. Langberg’s newest book is Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church. Other books include Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse, On the Threshold of Hope (with accompanying workbook), In Our Lives First: Meditations for Counselors and Suffering the Heart of God: How Trauma Destroys and Christ Restores.

Dr. Langberg is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumna Achievements from Taylor University., the American Association of Christian Counselors Caregiver Award, The Distinguished President’s award, and the Philadelphia Council of Clergy’s Christian Service Award.

She is married and has two sons and four grandchildren.

https://www.dianelangberg.com

Dr. Langberg cofounded the Global Trauma Recovery Institute at Missio Seminary in Philadelphia.

She is also on the board of GRACE, Godly Response to Abuse in a Christian Environment, founded by Boz Tchividjian.

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This episode is coming to you for such a time as this.  With spiritual abuse, abuse of power, and sexual abuse becoming such common news in our time, we have to admit that there are many churches with cultures and systems that are unhealthy and even harmful.  If you are a pastor, a church leader, a congregant or just want to be a part of making a difference in a way that helps others flourish, listen in closely to the research and the harsh reality of what is happening on our watch. There is hope of how to do better, and how to be a part of creating goodness cultures together.   Our guests today are a father and daughter co-author duo who walked through a painful reality at Willow Creek church in Chicago, and that experience led them to want to help others.  

Dr. Scot McKnight is a world-renowned speaker, writer, professor and equipper of the Church. He is a recognized authority on the historical Jesus, early Christianity, and the New Testament. His blog, Jesus Creed, is a leading Christian blog. Dr. McKnight’s books include The Jesus Creed, The King Jesus Gospel, The Blue Parakeet, The Real Mary, and Junia is Not Alone.  A sought after speaker, he has been interviewed on several radio and television programs as well as spoken at numerous local churches, conferences, colleges, and seminaries in the United States and around the world. Scot McKnight is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Society for New Testament Studies. McKnight’s books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Portuguese. 

You can find him, along with the other 50.5K followers on twitter at: @scotmcknight 

Laura Barringer is a teacher of primary-grade students. She is the co-author of Sharing God's Love: The Jesus Creed for Children and wrote a teacher lesson and activity guide to accompany the book. She is also co-author of A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing. Laura is a graduate of Wheaton College (IL) and currently resides in the Chicago suburbs with her husband, Mark, and three beagles. 

You can find her on twitter at:  @laurambarringer 

Buy their book and highlight it as many times as I did, because A Church Called TOV:  Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing, will likely be, outside of the Bible, the most important book you read this year.  Let's be TOV and create TOV systems and TOV churches together so we can all flourish. 

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Ever wondered what some alternatives to the Billy Graham rule could be so that women can still be developed as leaders as much as men can in the church? Anna Morgan has.  She not only has wondered, she has researched this topic and found some practical ways to address this issue so that women and men can both flourish in leadership spaces. Anna Morgan has been in full-time pastoral ministry for over twenty years. She has a background in worship and creative ministries and has been the executive pastor of the ministries of City Church Chicago, a ten-year-old multi-ethnic church in downtown Chicago, for the past five years. Anna is also a leadership coach and trainer, working to develop local church leaders around the US and Australia. Anna earned a masters degree in Global Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary and is currently working on a doctorate of missiology at Fuller Seminary, doing applied research into the development of female leaders in local churches. Anna has been married to John Morgan for fourteen years and has three adult daughters. You can find her at City Church Chicago and on Linkedin and Facebook. Stay In Touch: Connect on Facebook and Instagram with thoughts, questions, and feedback. Rate, review and share this podcast with anyone that would love to listen.  On Clubhouse @loriadbr. Find Us Online: @aworldof.difference on Instagram and A World of Difference on Facebook on Twitter at @loriadbr https://linktr.ee/aworldofdifference

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Kelly is a life coach and a certified Enneagram coach with over 20 years of experience developing leaders.  She is an Enneagram 2, and love to help others learn how to INVEST in their lives and discover their WHY.   She is a mom of 3 women, and has been married to Fred for 25 years.  She has experience as an elementary school teacher, a pastor, and an entrepreneur.  

https://kellytibbitts.com/

Check out her podcast at: Coaching with Kelly

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After a lifetime as a proud agnostic, Sue Warnke began following Jesus in 2017. Now Sue is helping spark a movement of authentic faith in the workplace. She is the Senior Director of Content & Communications Experience at Salesforce, part of the founding team of Salesforce's 3000-person global organization Faithforce, and the founder of Leanership.org, an organization that provides best practices for integrating faith and work. 

Sue recommends these resources: Brian Grim at RFBF and Mohammed Faris at Productive Muslim.

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Nancy Ortberg has over twenty-two years experience in sales, service and the healthcare industry, including eighteen years in leadership roles. She has in addition, led a staff team in the recruitment and mobilization of thousands of volunteers as well as spoken internationally and domestically on topics of leadership and the creation of corporate culture.  She is currently serving as the CEO of Transforming the Bay with Christ, seeking to help catalyze a holistic Gospel movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the first half of her career, Nancy worked in hospital and healthcare administration, providing leadership and team development in large medical organizations. From 1991-2003 she held leadership positions in sales and marketing and did extensive work with non-profit organizations. Nancy is passionate about improving personal and organizational effectiveness and believes that teams are the most dynamic way to produce those results. She believes in helping people bring the best of who they are to what they do best. Her particular interests are leading teams through the process of analyzing, and planning the changes needed to improve how they work together as a team; starting with building trust with each other through getting exceptional results which they can only achieve by being a dynamic leadership team. She is a the founding partner of Teamworx2.co and a consulting partner with Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Silos Politics and Turf Wars and Death by Meeting. Nancy was a teaching pastor who worked for 13 years at Willow Creek Community Church in the Chicago area, and knows what it can mean to do the "good, right and wise" thing, even when it isn't easy, as she mentions on today's podcast.  Nancy is for the church, for women, for men, for wholeness, but above all- for Jesus.  She knows what it means to be brave and follow God, even at great personal cost. Nancy is the author of Looking for God: An Unexpected Journey through tattoos, tofu, & pronouns, Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands, lessons in non-linear leadership and Seeing in the Dark finding God's light in the most unexpected places. She and her husband, John, live in the Bay Area and have three children: Laura, Mallory, and Johnny. 

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