Run, Mary, Run: A Roadmap for Resurrection Leadership and Communal Healing

By Emma Jordan-Simpson

Rooted in Scripture and Negro Spirituals, Run, Mary, Run by Emma Jordan-Simpson reframes leadership for perilous times. This book helps communities embrace radical hope, reject despair, and dismantle limiting belief systems. It provides healing practices and discussion tools to transform good intentions into lived, courageous future leadership.

Run, Mary, Run: A Roadmap to Resurrection Leadership reframes leadership for perilous times. Emma Jordan-Simpson, pastor and president of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York, helps readers call out beliefs and systems that shrink hope and blunt courage, rooting her work in story, Scripture, and the wisdom of Negro Spirituals. Mary Magdalene's dash from Jesus' tomb to announce that death and despair don't get the last word frames Run, Mary, Run as a bold call for courage and action. Run, Mary, Run offers healing-centered practices, discussion prompts, and small group tools to move communities beyond good intentions toward lived transformation. Chart your own faith-rooted roadmaps and become the kind of leader the future needs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0827233264
• ISBN13: 9780827233263
• Release Date: January 2027
• Publisher: Chalice Press
• Length: 160 Pages