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5712m615h9r	Ellen Susanna Childs	Maladapted to Change: How Routinized Practice Is Killing the United Methodist Church	2014		.txt	text/plain	108	3	27	Using data from interviews of pastors in the United Methodist Church of Indiana, along with observational and interview data from two congregations in a mid-sized, Midwestern City, I outline the ways in which the strength of laity within the United Methodist System, developed over years of shifting pastoral leadership, undermines the strength of pastoral leadership. Finally, I discuss ways in which the lack of leadership within congregations leads to a gap in vision within the congregations.	cache/5712m615h9r.txt	txt/5712m615h9r.txt