New Book by Visiting Researcher, Gail Cafferata, Featured on Faith & Leadership
“I didn’t know anyone else at that point who had closed a church, because no one in our diocese had done it,” she said. “And then I thought, ‘I wonder if anybody’s ever done a study?’”
This question, according to a recent article shared on Faith & Leadership (a resource for Christian leaders, from Leadership Education at Duke Divinity) prompted Gail Cafferata’s newly released book, The Last Pastor: Faithfully Steering a Closing Church. Cafferata, a CPT visiting researcher, brought together her two decades of experience as a sociologist in higher education, with her personal experience as a pastor of a closing church, in order to research and reflect upon the phenomena surrounding the pastoring of closing churches.
The Center for Practical Theology congratulates Cafferata on the release of this book, as well as her feature on Faith & Leadership.