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(RNS) David Emmanuel Goatley, an associate dean at Duke Divinity School, will replace Mark Labberton, who announced he was stepping down from the Pasadena, California, seminary last year.
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The last few years have seen multiple instances of well-known evangelical leaders entrenched in scandals and misconduct. Some have questioned if seminaries are doing enough to train future pastors to lead churches and disciple their congregations virtuously. As part of a series on the crisis of church leadership, The Christian Post reached out to seminaries to see how they prepare pastors to lead a church and their opinions of popular church leadership models.