INSIGHTS INTO SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP You will heal others out of the deepest wounds you have suffered. This is your gift to us. The gift of caring helps others plow their ground, like a tractor for them. Some people’s ground is a swamp, and your tractor
Walt Thiessen says: Look at Jesus life. Cynicism is a false substitute for proper Christian anger, lament and faithful action. Young friend Zoe Fitch says, “Cynicism is a gateway drug to everything nasty.” The goal of the Christian life to extract the precious from that
We are fighting for a Story, in a day that distrusts everyone’s meta-story (i.e. the postmodern influencers believe that every declaration of knowledge is an act of power against somebody else). But, there must be a way to critique the better from the best. We
Here is the thought from today’s classes, though I’m still ill and trying to make it through a day upright. What is the result of the mingling of faith and power? Was Corrie Ten Boom correct, that the greatest evil on the face of the
The most profound thought from yesterday’s classes was this from Thomas Oden: Empathy is the capacity to use one’s imaginative faculties to enter into the world of another. Corporate empathy, on the side of the Church, may just be the credible factor in our ongoing
