By: Mathieu Yuill on December 7, 2024
For two years, I didn’t have a home. Not in the figurative “I’m searching for where I belong” sense, but in the very real, very cold “I have no idea where I’ll sleep tonight” sense. I became an expert at overstaying my welcome on friends’ couches, right up until the moment I could feel the…
By: Todd E Henley on December 5, 2024
As I prepared to delve into Dominion, two words resonated deeply within me: Adam Harris. As I settled into my seat next to him on that train departing from Oxford, he gently nudged me to read Dominion. It was clear how much it resonated with him. Later that year, he shared in class how a…
By: Adam Harris on December 2, 2024
About a year ago, I came across an article proclaiming Aayan Hirsi Ali as a Christian now. I only knew her as an outspoken ex-Muslim atheist from the books I had read. She has been considered the fifth horsemen of the four horsemen of the atheist apocalypse. As I listened to her interview outlining her…
By: Dinka Utomo on December 2, 2024
When I was a teenager, I used to think that people outside of Christianity saw Christianity with only one face, namely, as a religion full of goodness. In the mind of a teenager like me at that time, I felt great pride because I believed that many people must think that Christianity is noble. After…
By: Jenny Dooley on December 2, 2024
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, by Tom Holland, is a fitting book to end our extensive reading list. Holland writes a compelling and insightful history of how Christianity has influenced the world. He asserts that even those who reject the faith live out the unmistakable principles of Christianity. Conversely, he exposes the…
By: Jonita Fair-Payton on December 2, 2024
Pierce and Abbey Lane How do you capture a portion of a book that tells such a comprehensive story? Well, you write about the subject that you are most interested in, drawn to. For me, it was a choice between two, The Apocalypse and Love. I know that sounds strange, well maybe not so strange…
By: Kim Sanford on December 2, 2024
Here goes, the last blog post of our LGP journey (calamari!) Knowing that Tom Holland’s Dominion was waiting for us at the end of this semester, I’ve noticed his name popping up seemingly everywhere I look for the past couple of months. First, I saw his book on a friend’s bookshelf. Then he was discussed…
By: John Fehlen on December 2, 2024
A couple weeks ago I stood in the pulpit and made a confession: I absolutely hate playing board games. I’d rather have my teeth cleaned and drilled into, which I should know because I just had that done recently, for two hours straight, all because I hadn’t been to the dentist in over 4 years!…
By: Esther Edwards on December 2, 2024
Tonight we honored friends of ours as they celebrated the anniversary of the church they planted twenty years ago. Today it is a thriving congregation that has planted a host of churches and continues to reach out locally and globally. We have been in the trenches as friends throughout these many years weathering highs and…
By: Cathy Glei on December 2, 2024
“Inevitably, to attempt the tracing of Christianity’s impact on the world is to cover the rise and fall of empires, the actions of Bishops and kings, the arguments of theologians, the course of revolutions, the planting of crosses around the world. It is, in particular, to focus on the doings of men, yet that hardly…
By: Mathieu Yuill on November 23, 2024
When was the last time your plans went exactly as expected? If you’re anything like me, the answer is probably never. The world doesn’t work that way. It’s messy, unpredictable, and full of surprises—the good, the bad, and the bewildering. And yet, so much of our leadership training, our organizational structures, even how we run…
By: Todd E Henley on November 21, 2024
“Warriors for the Human Spirit are awake human beings who have chosen not to flee. They abide.”1 The above quote is taken from Margaret J. Wheatley’s website and is a perfect segway to the rest of this blog. Warriors A warrior is known as a fighter, a winner, someone who perseveres until the battle/goal is…
By: Adam Harris on November 21, 2024
I’ve been fascinated by quantum physics and consciousness studies for a while, that is, once I started to somewhat understand it. The double-slit experiment Margaret Wheatley mentions in Leadership and the New Science has made its way into the general population, so it’s easy to find videos of physicists or Youtubers attempting to explain its…
By: Kim Sanford on November 19, 2024
There has always been a sort of underlying assumption that the sciences are measurable and immutable. The arts, on the other hand, have long been viewed as more subjective and less clear-cut. And as anyone who works with people knows, humans are anything but measurable and clear-cut. Highly relational fields like social work, psychology and…
By: John Fehlen on November 18, 2024
Allow me to state the obvious: Margaret J. Wheatley is wicked smart. And often (sadly), when you come across someone with that level of intellect, you can almost bet the farm that they’re going to be, well, how do I put this… socially deficient. Ok, bluntly put: a real dud. Emotional intelligence: zero. But with…
By: Jenny Dooley on November 18, 2024
Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World and Finding Our Way: Leadership For an Uncertain Time, written by Margaret J. Wheatley, present a complementary vision of what non-anxious, collaborative, and transformational leadership can look like in our chaotic and uncertain world. I was reassured by the necessity and normalcy of chaos…
By: Dinka Utomo on November 14, 2024
It is still fresh in my memory when I was still in the 3rd grade of junior high school when the senior pastor in our church passed away. He was a man who was so loved by the congregation. A man full of compassion and gentleness. When I was about to attend his funeral service,…
By: Todd E Henley on November 14, 2024
“Our careers, our companies, our relationships, and indeed our very lives succeed or fail, gradually, then suddenly, one conversation at a time.”1 While no single conversation is guaranteed to change the trajectory of a career, a company, a relationship, or a life, any single conversation can. This is why I strongly believe the words of…
By: Adam Harris on November 14, 2024
Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay’s book “How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide ” should be required reading for high schools, colleges, non-profit organizations, and churches. I appreciate the difficult conversations these two have intentionally engaged in and the insights they have accumulated over the years about difficult conversations, changing others’ minds, and…
By: Kim Sanford on November 12, 2024
Hi, my name is Kim. I’m an ideologue. At least, according to Boghosian and Lindsay, I think I might be. They define ideologue as “one who is unwilling or unable to revise their (moral) beliefs.”[1] And just to be clear, they portray an ideologue in, shall we say, less than complimentary terms. I found How…
