Part I: Leadership and Church administration: new models and new practices --Leadership matters in church and society -- Philosophy and theology of courage and leadership -- Part II: Working together: Black ministers and laity in the urban church -- Urban church: leadership among clergy and laity -- We hold these truths: what the laity expect of the minister -- Ambivalence among minister leaders and followers -- Leadership in the urban church: implications of the laity's expectations -- Part III: Speaking the truth to power: social ethics, church leadership, and social policy -- Church leadership and the race issue -- Toward a constructive practical theology.