By: John Fehlen on October 21, 2024
Several years ago, while living and pastoring in Oregon (which I still do), I was invited to speak at a leadership conference hosted at a large church in Washington State. O.K. Now, let me tell you the expanded and more truthful version of that last sentence because I just glossed over the truth to make…
By: Tim Clark on October 21, 2024
In the book Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, And Trust by Edgar and Peter Schein the authors repeatedly return to a particular concept: Situational Humility. When I first saw this term, it threw me. It reminded me of the phrase situational ethics, which “takes into account only the particular context of an act…
By: Kally Elliott on October 21, 2024
In the first page of their introduction of their book, Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust, Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein ask, “Would it help to think of leadership not as the “7 Steps” you must take to lead, but as the energy that is shared among members of a…
By: Jenny Dooley on October 21, 2024
Humility seems rare in our current US political environment, western culture, and sadly, at times, among our more public religious leaders. Maybe humble leaders don’t make the news, but they exist. Genuine humility is essential whether one is leading or following. Defining and practicing humility is a challenge. I wonder how false humility has become…
By: Esther Edwards on October 21, 2024
I recently asked my daughters and sons-in-law (all millennials and Gen Z’s) what they would look for in a church and a pastor. Our family message thread was immediately flooded. These were their responses: In a congregation: a small congregation where we could get involved quickly opportunities to grow and be mentored to know the…
By: Cathy Glei on October 21, 2024
As I read this week’s reading of Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust by Edgar Schein and Peter Schein, I made several leadership connections to other texts I have read in the last 2+ years. This is an attempt to highlight some of those connections between the texts. As our world rapidly…
By: Travis Vaughn on October 21, 2024
Leadership is already hard. Humble leadership is…harder? I’d compare the kind of leadership described in Humble Leadership, by Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein, to the sort of well-differentiated prowess one needs in order to navigate the intersection of emotionally healthy leadership and the technical expertise required to get the job done. To be…
By: Dinka Utomo on October 17, 2024
According to data from the Central Statistics Agency (B.P.S.) of Indonesia in 2023, the proportion of individuals who master gadgets at age 5-14 years is 36.99%, and aged 15-24 is 92.14%. In general, Indonesia holds the world record for the longest screen time per day, which is 6.05 hours per day, beating Thailand…
By: Jana Dluehosh on October 17, 2024
This book was hard to read. It was a dagger in my heart as a mom of 3 teenage boys. What Jonathan Haidt wrote in his book The Anxious Generation was not surprising or new information for me. I believe my husband and I have been struggling with this addiction to screen time since our…
By: Adam Harris on October 17, 2024
About a month ago, my family, which includes my wife and two boys, ages 8 and 14, were having a barbeque with two other families from our church who also have boys. That means seven boys in all. You can imagine the noise levels, chaos, and energy when they were all together. Ironically, my friend…
By: Jonita Fair-Payton on October 17, 2024
Anxiety I had a conversation this week with a client that shared that they suffer from anxiety. They shared it in a conversation that the topic was not their mental health but as an explanation of how they responded or didn’t respond in a situation. The interesting thing about this situation is that I did…
By: Russell Chun on October 17, 2024
Príliš neskoro pre moje deti – Too Late for my children Part 1. Introduction Part 2. What others are saying Part 3. What I learned from Haidt Part 4. Epilogue: What is the way forward Part 1. Introduction Príliš neskoro pre moje deti, príliš skoro pre moje vnúčatá.” Too Late for my children, Too…
By: Todd E Henley on October 15, 2024
“You’re killin’ me, Smalls” is a playful way of telling someone they’re being annoying or frustrating. It’s often used in a lighthearted way among friends or family members. The phrase is taken from the movie Sandlot and is uttered by the character “Ham” Porter to Scotty Smalls. The scene occurs when Ham offers Smalls a…
By: Kim Sanford on October 15, 2024
A couple of weeks ago, I sat in a parents’ meeting listening to my son’s teacher talk about the upcoming school year. Toward the end of the meeting a father behind me raised his hand and asked the teacher if she had a guess as to how many students in the class had phones. She…
By: Cathy Glei on October 14, 2024
“I have found that Gen Z has several great strengths that will help them drive positive change. The first is that they are not in denial. They want to get stronger and healthier, and most are open to new ways of interacting. The second strength is that they want to bring about systemic change to…
By: Scott Dickie on October 14, 2024
(Spoiler Alert: my blog doesn’t have anything to do with the title…I just like irony) So many thoughts, so few words. That is my first response as I sit down to write a blog on Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation, which asserts that, “overprotection in the real world and underprotection in the virtual world—are…
By: Mathieu Yuill on October 14, 2024
A few years ago, I took on a project that became bigger than I ever anticipated: a neighbourhood fireworks show. What started as a small, local event grew into something special, something that brought our entire community together. For ten years, we lit up the sky—literally and figuratively—and the final few years saw over 4,000…
By: Jennifer Vernam on October 14, 2024
When reading Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation[1], and his assessment of the impact of smart phones and social media on children, there were two parts of my personal story that influenced my perspective. First, I am a champion worrier. I do not use the word ‘champion’ lightly here. If there were awards given to those…
By: John Fehlen on October 14, 2024
On August 1, 1981, just after midnight, MTV (Music Television) debuted the first “music video.” It was set to the song Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles. MTV went on to set the standard for visual content and propel artists into virtual superstardom. Ask any child of the 80’s, and they will tell…
By: Tim Clark on October 14, 2024
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt is an extremely hard book for me to read. I say “is” because I’m still in the middle of it (actually, towards the beginning of it). I can only take small sections at a time. It’s…
