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Organizations & the imago Dei
In Genesis, we find the origins of human organization: work and society. Humans are created with the divine mandate to multiply in number, have dominion over the earth, engage in work using the resources of the earth, and to do all of this in community with others. The capacity for meaningful work is a part of…
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College Professors in the Academy & Abbey
Is it possible for a culture to fill its mind while simultaneously emptying its soul? I believe that is the looming challenge facing higher education. Digital culture has put a world of knowledge at our fingertips…literally. But the most fundamental concern of education remains fixed and unchanged. How do we use the knowledge in the right way? In a world…
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The Atheist 10 “Non-Commandments”
Recent CNN post about the Atheists’ 10 “Non-Commandments” that were voted upon http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/19/living/atheist-10-commandments/: In our own more enlightened age, we’re perfectly capable of crowdsourcing our own commandments — or, at least, that’s what a new project would have us believe. Lex Bayer, an executive at AirBnB, and John Figdor, a humanist chaplain at Stanford University,…
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Biblical leadership: where do we find it?
It is inadequate to produce contemporary models and theories by proof-texting notable portions of Scripture and trying to extract the “principles” imagined to buried deep within.
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Hofstrede’s dimension of culture & leadership
Five dimensions of culture (Hofstede): Power distance – the degree and range of the distribution of power among societal groups Uncertainty avoidance – level of comfort with unstructured, uncontrollable situations Individualism / collectivism – degree to which individuals care for themselves versus being cared for in a group (family) Masculinity / femininity – the distribution…
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Leadership needs theology
No leadership model can realize its visions for life and community without a solid theological foundation that connects the reality of biblical revelation, historical experience, a proper view of the human person, and sound cultural exegesis. This means having or developing a solid theology of leadership. We need a deeper understanding of leadership of a community or an organization from a biblical (and holiness) worldview,…
