Summer 2005 Issue: Review and Expositor Journal

"Bowen Family Systems Theory in the Congregational Context" is the theme of this issue. Edited by Israel Galindo and Timothy Brock (workshop participant). Articles included are: "Bowen family Systems Theory and Congregational Life" by Ronald Richardson; "The Bridge" by Edwin Friedman; "A Retrospective: Edwin Friedman, His Life and Work" by Edward Beal; "Bowen Family Systems Theory: A Resource for Pastoral Theologians" by Lawrence Matthews;"Societal Regression and the Clergy" by Roberta Gilbert; "Systems Theory and Congregational Leadership: Leaves from an Alchemist’s Journal" by James Lamkin; "The Preacher, The Text and The People" by Walter Brueggemann and "Communion Across the Ages" by Elizabeth Pugh Mills.

Books reviewed include those by Galindo and Richardson noted above as well as Friedman’s Generation to Generation and Roberta Gilbert’s latest, The Eight Concepts of Bowen Theory: A New Way of Thinking About the Individual and the Group.

Copies of this special issue marking the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Friedman’s Generation to Generation may be ordered from the publisher’s web site: RandE.org.

"Bowen Family Systems Theory: A Resource for Pastoral Theologians"

    This article by Larry Matthews first appeared in Review and Expositor in the issue noted above.

 
"A View From the Trenches"

A paper presented by Larry Matthews at the "Reunion On the Road Ahead"
conference held November 29-30, 2006 at Washington National Cathedral honoring the work of Rabbi Edwin Friedman on the tenth anniversary of his death.

"If Dealing With the Resistance is the Key to the Kingdom, What Is the Kingdom?"
In a recent workshop presentation, Larry Matthews focuses upon one of Edwin Friedman’s often repeated and published summary statements.

Toward A Family Systems Understanding of the "L" Word

The usual assumption is that we all mean the same thing when we use the word,"Leadership." Experience teaches Larry Matthews that this is not the case.

Leadership Through Self-differentiation 

Peter Steinke: 20 Observations about Troubled Congregations
An article from the December 4, 2006 issue of the "Alban Weekly".