By: Phil Goldsberry on November 5, 2015
Introduction The “Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice” is like eating a box of Whitman’s Sampler assorted chocolates. As a child, my mother received at least one of these annually from my Dad. As an elementary aged, little boy who was beginning to read, the challenge and the discovery of the chocolate schematic inside the…
By: Brian Yost on November 5, 2015
“Why is it that the contemplation of images exerts the power to arrest the mind and deliver it from the anxieties that fragment the consciousness and bind it to such invented torments as frustration, rage, jealousy, or obsession?”1 Images provoke a reaction. But what reaction to they provoke? In his book The Sacred Gaze: Religious…
By: Pablo Morales on November 5, 2015
INTRODUCTION “What do you do with all your free time?” This was the first question that a hairstylist asked me when she found out I was a pastor. Initially, I did not understand what she meant, so I asked her to explain her question while she kept cutting my hair. She then clarified, “After you…
By: Jon Spellman on November 5, 2015
Before I begin the serious talk… I just had to share this. Anybody every heard of “Braco the Gazer?” If not, check this out and be ready to laugh, and cry a little when you realize just how desperate people are to believe ANYTHING! Braco doesn’t actually talk, he just stands and gazes at the…
By: Colleen Batchelder on November 5, 2015
Nohria and Khurana have sought to envelope us in the scholastic, practical and purposeful aspect of leadership and challenge us to live with meaning. This type of leadership requires us to delve into mindset of our audience and seek to communicate effectively and purposefully. “Leaders are the source of institutional values which, in turn, condition…
By: Marc Andresen on November 5, 2015
“Adlerizing” this book by reading dust cover, acknowledgments, table of contents, and headings led me to two specific chapters in which to focus, and here I felt like I’d hit the golden mother lode of material to support my D Min interests. The enormous project of assembling the compendium called “Handbook of Leadership Theory and…
By: Jason Kennedy on November 5, 2015
INTRODUCTION Upon reading Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, it makes me wonder if we need another leadership book. Taken from a collection of leadership essays, the editors, Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khuruna, do such a splendid job at gathering the insights from some of the best leadership minds, that it does beg the question.…
By: Claire Appiah on November 5, 2015
Leadership: Authentic, Christian, and Transformational Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice: A Harvard Business School Centennial Colloquium by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana, Editors. Introduction According to the editors, Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana, leadership research has been neglected for a long time by academia. This left the field wide open for popular authors or…
By: Phillip Struckmeyer on November 5, 2015
Sacred Visual Ethnography David Morgan is a Professor of Religious Studies with a secondary appointment in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke. He has published several books and dozens of essays on the history of religious visual culture, on art history and critical theory, and on religion and media.[1] With…
By: Aaron Peterson on November 5, 2015
I had no idea there are so many contours to leadership! As a pastor, I have mostly subscribed to Bill Hybels definition of a leader as someone who brings a group of people from Point A to Point B. Nohria and Khurana’s collection of papers in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice prove to me that pastoring a…
By: Aaron Cole on November 5, 2015
Introduction: Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana is a collection of almost fifty contributing scholars on the subject of Leadership. Much is written mainstream and in popular culture on the subject of leadership. Thousands and even tens of thousands have been written on the subject and line both virtual…
By: Nick Martineau on November 4, 2015
At our church we are currently preparing for a community wide Art Auction. Last week we covered every inch of wall space in our building and hung up over 200 pieces of art created by church members sometime during the past 4 years. We’ve also had many local artists donate pieces to be sold during…
By: Rose Anding on November 4, 2015
Introduction According to author John C. Maxwell, “real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow as everything rises and falls on leadership.”[1] A great leader is one who coaches and mentors the workers, inspires enthusiasm, and does not depend on authority, but on goodwill. A leader influences…
By: Mary Pandiani on November 3, 2015
In a recent blog, Leonard Sweet’s Summoned to Lead referenced Leonardo DaVinci’s philosophy of art – Sapere Vedere – knowing how to see.[1] With DaVinci’s remarkable ability to connect science, technology, and philosophy, he advocates that art is not only about the creation but also the process of seeing what is created. Through cross-disciplines, Sapere…
By: Dave Young on November 3, 2015
Many things that carry great weight in Christian thought are eventually challenged by a surge in a contrary view. In The Sacred Gaze, David Morgan argues that the study of images has been undervalued in our understanding of religion. (By “religion” he means all major religions but focuses mostly on Christianity, which is his own…
By: Garfield Harvey on November 3, 2015
“The contemporary era is one dominated by speed.”[1] There is much talk about living in an evolving world but those same people complain about the pace. People want things fast and people want it their way but when it is outside the scope of their control, they complain that the speed is irrelevant to their…
By: Brian Yost on November 2, 2015
Thanks for the label! Lest thou thinketh me sarcastic, let me assure you that I am serious. Labels often get a bad reputation, but let’s face it, we all need labels. Take the labels off all the cans in your pantry and see if your spouse is pleased. While labels can be misused and unfairly…
By: Dawnel Volzke on October 31, 2015
In their book, Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement[1], author’s Miller and Yamamori discuss the rapid growth of Pentecostalism in the developing world. Global Pentecostalism is one of the fastest growing religious movements in the world today. My exposure to the Pentecostal church thus far has been negative, so I approached this…
By: Travis Biglow on October 30, 2015
Pentecost the Origin of our Pentecostal Faith October 29, 15 Reading that many Pentecostal movements are doing things that their denominations have never done is right on line with my thought process. They are moving away from structured ecclesiastical structures to Pentecostal movements that are being blessed and not so structured. Even though…
By: Kevin Norwood on October 29, 2015
Introduction In the late eighties, I was a student at Oklahoma State University. I remember vividly my Tuesday and Thursday afternoon sociology class. It was a shocking experience for me, a pastor’s kid that had not strayed into the world. Our teacher was a self-declared leather chaps wearing biker. She actually came to class dressed…
