Tag: Foundations of Christian Leadership

The Adaptive Challenge of Race-lessness

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I am presently reading Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading by Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky.  It, along with Samuel Wells’ Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics, are required reading for Duke University’s Foundations of Christian Leadership program.  I will return at the end of this month to the Avila […]

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Talk To Yourself

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This week, I’m at the Avila Retreat Center in Durham, North Carolina, attending the first of three, one week intensives for Duke’s Foundations of Christian Leadership program.  This afternoon, we were provided with a much needed opportunity for reflection, often scarce in our ministry settings.  After answering a series of questions during a guided journaling […]

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