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Another excerpt from new Kenotic Leadership Book
Excerpts from my upcoming new book (Summer 2017), Kenotic Leadership and the Movement that Changed America (working title), that looks at the imitation of Christ in the life and leadership of Francis Asbury, first bishop of the Methodist church in America. (A condensed version of this subject is covered my chapter “The Leadership of Francis Asbury” in Leadership the Wesleyan…
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Rob Bell’s Love Doesn’t Win, It Destroys
In a TV special with Oprah Winfrey a while back, Rob and Kristen Bell had the following to say about homosexual marriage and the church: “Loneliness is not good for the world. Whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural and healthy to want someone to go through life with. It’s central…
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Slavery and early Methodism: a book excerpt
Excerpts from my upcoming new book (Summer 2017), Kenotic Leadership and the Movement that Changed America (working title), that looks at the imitation of Christ in the life and leadership of Francis Asbury, first bishop of the Methodist church in America. Francis Asbury: “I am brought to conclude that slavery will exist in Virginia perhaps for ages; there is…
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Excerpt from new Kenotic Leadership book
Excerpts from my upcoming new book (Summer 2017), Kenotic Leadership and the Movement that Changed America (working title), that looks at the imitation of Christ in the life and leadership of Francis Asbury, first bishop of the Methodist church in America. (A condensed version of this subject is covered my chapter “The Leadership of Francis Asbury” in Leadership the Wesleyan…
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Church Boards: Unified vs. Unanimous
When it comes to church board decision making, a policy requiring a unanimous vote may not be the most desirable strategy. Two issues acting in tension provide an important backdrop for this assertion: 1) the biblical call to unity in the body, and 2) individual differences in perspective, opinion, understanding, and personalities in group dynamics.…
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Veritas in Eruditio
Higher education is facing, to paraphrase Dickens and Thomas Paine, the best and worst of times, the times that try institutions’ souls. These are the worst of times because of the great challenges facing higher education: escalating costs of tuition, facilities, books and resources, and personnel; increased competition and decreasing enrollment pools; aging adult populations;…
