Wise Leadership Messages: A 2025 Compilation

from LeaderWise Staff

This week offers many of our leaders a much needed pause. A time to look back at the past year and consider what wisdom and lessons will be valuable to bring forward into the New Year. If you are like us, there are weeks when a bit of needed wisdom enters our inbox without the time or capacity to take it in. 

You may star these missives … Or file them away in a folder … Only for them to be forgotten. 

For your year-end reflection, we offer you this gift. We are surfacing a few of LeaderWise articles from 2025 so that you may remember, reflect, and begin again. 

5 of our Most Popular LeaderWise Articles

5 - Why Did God Send Me Here? 

4 - AI & the Pastor: The Existential Dilemma

3 - Getting Unstuck, A Good News Story

2 - A Refuge When the World Is on Fire

1 - Four Steps for Anxiety and Despair to Flourishing

4 Mission-Critical Articles 

4 - When Boundaries Hold Us Free

3 - Can We Choose to Respond or Are We Stuck in Reaction?

2 - Trauma-Informed Ministry in Everyday Encounters

1 - Sabbath as a Container

3 Articles You Don’t Want to Miss

3 - The Shift Towards Enough

2 - Field of Dreams

1 - Speaking of Transitions

2 Article Series

2 - Building a Culture of Connection: In a society increasingly built on isolation and division, our writers offered stories and tools for building a culture of connection. (Scroll to the bottom for links to all of the articles.)

1 - Good News Stories: As the traditional forms of congregational life change and crumble, we interviewed faith leaders, congregations, and denominations who are listening for and responding to God’s call, for the world’s great need, and for their values. As the UCCers say, God’s still speaking. 

1 Opportunity for 2026

1 Tending the Apple Tree

Happy New Year from all of us at LeaderWise!