Accountable Leadership: A Resource Guide for Sustaining Legal, Financial, and Ethical Integrity in Today's Congregations, Revised and Updated

One: Becoming an Accountable Leader
1. Courage and the Responsibilities of Leadership
2. What the Law Requires
3. The Role of the Governing Board
Two: Accountability, Administration, and the Shared Life of theCongregation
4. Developing Life-Support Systems for the Corporate Body
5. Responsible Financial Management
6. Employment Practices That Safeguard Communal Values
7. Contracting with Service Providers from Inside and Outside theCongregation
Three: TAnding to Invisible Wounds Within the Congregation
8. Zero Tolerance for Abusive Behavior
9. Preventing Clergy Misconduct
10. Healing the Wounded Congregation