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Being a personalist, Day had a suspicion of bigness, whether it was big government or big corporations. Day even had a suspicion of big philanthropy. She was constantly urging her co-workers to “stay small”: Start your work from where you live, with the small concrete needs right around you. Help ease tension in your workplace. Help feed the person
... See moreDavid Brooks • The Road to Character
This question of how teams could meet happily day in and day out led me to the coaches. Leadership coaches, team coaches, personal coaches: “It’s all about relationships,” they explained. “If the people in the room can’t trust one another—if they’re anxious, worried, or angry, no amount of fancy facilitation will work. Building relationships matter
... See moreJ. Elise Keith • Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization
The church would need to offer a different moral vision for a different sense of a good life. Slowing down would need to be placed inside a completely different moral category of what makes life full, rather than slowing down just being a break from the pace of busyness.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
“move from ego-centeredness to other-centeredness.” We stop viewing the world as something to be exploited and manipulated, but rather as something to be regarded with awe and appreciation.
Sarah Hurwitz • Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)
ministry. The Samaritan is transformed and called “good” because he ministers to the beaten man, sharing in his personhood by entering his death experience as an embodied kenotic act.22 He is not good, righteous, or holy because he does the right thing and is a good (right-behaving) boy; he is holy because he allows the Spirit to transform him into
... See moreAndrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Pete Davis • “A Counterculture of Commitment” Speech
PAUSE, REFLECT, PACE.
Sharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
Patricia A Sanders
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As industrialization took hold, we needed pastors to check our secular excesses and to encourage us to live upright lives, particularly now that most of us were living in new urban centers, where temptation was ripe. We needed pastoral exhortation not to keep us from hell (as Edwards would believe) but to allow us to flourish, as an end in itself.