Church Leadership Radar - May 21, 2026

Thursday's radar covers three stories worth your attention today:SBC Abuse Prevention Leader Calls for Cross-Denominational Collaboration — Jeff Dalrymple, chair of the SBC's Abuse Reform and Implementation Task Force, is urging churches to work together ahead of the Annual Meeting in Orlando. Whether or not you're Southern Baptist, this signals a broader shift in how accountability structures are being built across the church.Can Virality Create Revival? — A Gen Z evangelist with a massive social media following is asking the honest question: does reach produce lasting transformation, or just audiences? Many church leaders are starting to sit with this same reckoning about their own platforms.King Josiah and the Question Leaders Need to Hear — A brief reflection on one of the greatest leaders in Jewish history circles around a single question: Are you still leading the way you started?Bright Spot: Two new "Sensational Church" congregations — designed for neuro-diverse children and their families — have launched in Australia and South Africa, just six months after the founding congregation's first service. Forty to fifty percent of attenders are families who had never been to church before.Subscribe to the Church Leadership Radar newsletter for daily leadership intelligence delivered to your inbox.Also check out the Healthy Church Staff Podcast with Todd Rhoades.