By: Jennifer Eckert on August 27, 2025
I have been volunteering in a women’s prison for nearly a decade. Two Saturdays a month, I leave home at 6:00 AM, arrive at the facility by 7:00 AM, and begin the lengthy entry process. I’m greeted by a massive gate, which feels like something out of Jurassic Park. My belongings are scanned by an…
By: Jeff Styer on August 27, 2025
First, forgive my ramblings as my brain has been on vacation and has not fully shifted back into school mode. As a social work professor, I have the privilege of teaching a course called Social Work Practice with Organizations and Communities. As soon as I picked up Humble Leadership, I immediately recognized Edgar Schein’s name. …
By: Glyn Barrett on August 27, 2025
In Humble Leadership,[1] Edgar and Peter Schein challenge one of the most ingrained assumptions in modern organisational life: that leadership is primarily about roles, hierarchy, and transactions. They argue that leadership at its most transformative emerges not through authority or position but through what they call “Level 2 relationships.”[2] This idea serves as a reorientation…
By: Debbie Owen on August 26, 2025
The exercise at the end of Humble Leadership [1] was humbling… and not necessarily in the best way. I drew a circle with my initials at the center of the page. Then I drew circles around that center circle with initials for many people at church. As suggested, I added circles and initials for my…
By: Adam Cheney on August 25, 2025
I was bored — reading through the first book of the semester — Humble Leadership, wondering why our Advanced Subject Matter Expert would have us read this book. It seemed as if the book was just an addition to some of the other leadership books along a similar vein to Rare Leadership or Simon Walker’s…
By: David Weston on May 1, 2025
I must start with a confession: I had reservations about Dr. Eve Poole’s book, Leadersmithing: Revealing the Trade Secrets of Leadership, [1] from the beginning. I stand on the other side of my reading with a significant modification to my initial, unexamined view. I admit that I had several biases in my understanding of how…
By: Noel Liemam on April 27, 2025
Introduction: To sum up my thought of ‘modern ideologies’ in a sentence I would say that it is the modern underpinnings of cultural, economic and political system of the modern period. It is what our modern way of life is based upon and revolves around. I could even say that it is what we value…
By: Linda Mendez on April 24, 2025
During worship time with my sons tonight, we read the story of Adam and Eve, the moment when God gave them a single, clear command: not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In our Bible storybook, one line stood out: “That mistake, which seemed so small and unimportant at…
By: Linda Mendez on April 23, 2025
Singing has always been my escape, a way to clear my mind and release what weighs me down. I quickly learned a powerful truth in choir: you are not in control. Someone else is conducting, others are harmonizing alongside you, and if you miss a note, chances are no one will notice. You blend into…
By: Darren Banek on April 21, 2025
Last week was the crescendo event of the 2025 FIRST Robotics season. Nearly 50,000 people from 160 countries converged on Houston, Texas for the World Championship. It was an exhausting week of problem-solving competition that saw tears of joy and defeat. For our family, the season started in the fall of 2024 as an after-school…
By: Joel Zantingh on April 20, 2025
Before reading Gad Saad’s The Parasitic Mind, How Infectious Ideas are Killing Common Sense, I reflected on a few of my previously gathered ideas about ideologies. As people’s understanding of life is formed by their family, faith and political environments, it crystallizes into a framework of understanding the world. How people think and feel about…
By: Ivan Ostrovsky on April 18, 2025
I was about to turn 30 years old. I planned a four-day, three-night whitewater rafting trip over in California, the American River, inviting about 60 of my church members, youth, young adults, and their families. Somehow, I was able to find a spot right next to the river, with a mountain rising on the other…
By: Michael Hansen on April 18, 2025
It was another clear and crisp morning at 4 a.m. when we stumbled out of our tent and peered into the West Texas skyline to view the glow on the horizon. Ken, Jerry, and I quickly shaved and began our routine ten-minute stroll to the operational control center, where we were planning the next phase…
By: Christian Swails on April 18, 2025
It’s unsettling how much intentionality is required to spend our hours doing what we want to do. In our transcendence through the information age into now limitless potential and possibilities, creators and leaders are paralyzed by freedom. The biggest obstacles creators (entrepreneurs, knowledge workers, pastors, artists, writers, etc) face is knowing what they are supposed…
By: Linda Mendez on April 18, 2025
Since September 2024, when I decided to return to school, my days have followed a demanding rhythm. Mornings begin with waking the kids, packing lunches, getting everyone ready, and making the school drop-off, all before starting my workday by 7:30 a.m. That early start is often the only moment of peace before the flurry of…
By: Daren Jaime on April 17, 2025
A Personal Perspective on Modern Ideologies As I sit and reflect on my current beliefs about modern ideologies, I find through my years of diverse exposure an increased commitment to worldview views. Admittedly, growing up, I was indoctrinated into an American lens deeply steeped in Western culture and context. Now with a broader scope, I…
By: Jeremiah Gómez on April 17, 2025
One of the least fun or exciting tasks—but perhaps one of the most important—I’ve completed in recent days is a crisis response plan for the church I serve as lead pastor if I’m suddenly unable to perform my duties. I know that death, incapacitation, or dismissal would be a tremendous challenge for the organization, especially…
By: David Weston on April 17, 2025
As I sat down to write this blog post on Shane Parrish’s New York Times Bestseller, Clear Thinking [1], I suddenly became quite fuzzy due to heavy ingestion of serious painkillers. I knew that many things were competing for my clarity of thought. I suddenly felt the urge to turn this ordinary moment into an…
By: Chad Warren on April 17, 2025
The human mind is both fantastic and flawed. It is capable of deep reason and dangerous delusion. In George Orwell’s 1984, the protagonist Winston Smith lives in a world where truth is not discovered but manufactured by the oppressive regime of Big Brother. The Party controls not just the actions of its citizens, but even…
By: Kari on April 17, 2025
“Why do I need to wear those?” I protested to my dad. I was about six years old, and he insisted I wear white tights before church. His reasoning? “They’ll help keep you warm in the subzero temperatures,” I remember scoffing—did he really think that thin layer of nylon would make a difference? Even then,…
