By: Travis Vaughn on October 30, 2023
In The Sound of Leadership, Jules Glanzer compares the exercise of leadership to the experience of sound, drawing on a definition of leadership put forward by Leonard Sweet: “Leadership is an acoustical art.”[1] In my opinion, the analogies of sound to leadership could be a fascinating supplement to Simon Walker’s ecology of power, or Kurt…
By: Alana Hayes on October 30, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a somewhat unavoidable, almost interconnected part of our lives. It has changed fields around the world such as education. With the rapid growth of the AI as a whole, students can now have access to an array of tools and services that can help them not only study more effectively…
By: John Fehlen on October 30, 2023
I don’t recommend being in Las Vegas on a Friday night. Overall, Vegas is a dumpster fire wrapped in a train wreck. That is, unless, you are in Las Vegas with your best friends, to see [arguably] the best band in the world, U2, at the best venue currently in the world: The Sphere. Google…
By: Jennifer Vernam on October 30, 2023
Goodreads lists[1] Glanzer’s The Sound of Leadership as “a collection of leadership insights,”[2] which would be the beginning of my description of this book if someone were to notice it on my coffee table. However, those five words do not do it full justice, as I found this book to serve as a reminder of…
By: Laura Fleetwood on October 29, 2023
The search for Truth has been at the center of war, politics, religion, science, technology, art and most of the conflict that our world has experienced over millennia. In this sense, it extends far beyond the philosophical realm into the very fabric of our lives. Stephen Hicks, Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, sets out…
By: Alana Hayes on October 29, 2023
“Lloyd powerfully joins a growing and urgent literature on the relationship among civic ideals, political and social morality, racial identity, and the emotions. I suspect Black Dignity will quickly become a fixture in conversations concerning visions of America against the backdrop of racial violence and inequity.”—Christopher J. Lebron, author of The Making of Black Lives…
By: Jean de Dieu Ndahiriwe on October 29, 2023
Introduction In his book “Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault,” author Stephen R. C. Hicks explores the philosophy of postmodernism and its effects on politics, cultural practices, and individual lives. Hicks argues that postmodernism, with its emphasis on skepticism and rejection of objective Truth, has its roots in the philosophical and political ideas of…
By: Michael O'Neill on October 27, 2023
Traffic is probable on a commute that I make each week, both ways. My two ridiculous-looking dogs (see below) and I leave consistently on Tuesdays in the evening, just as rush hour is in full throttle. I add to the congestion the next morning right on cue with thousands of other metro-Detroit, Ann Arbor, and…
By: Jana Dluehosh on October 27, 2023
Strange title huh. I want to start by saying, as I have heard by some of you say and I quote “this is hard”. Yep, it is! I have to be honest, I am struggling trying to find interest in the topics this semester. I’m struggling hard, and I am also struggling with my NPO…
By: Alana Hayes on October 27, 2023
Explaining Postmodernism: What is he talking about anyway? In his book “Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault,” author Stephen R. C. Hicks explores the philosophy of postmodernism and its effects on politics, cultural practices, and individual lives. His book takes a dive into the history, major figures, and contemporary ramifications of postmodernism.…
By: Chad McSwain on October 27, 2023
It is the moment that I can’t stop thinking about. It occurred during my ordination interviews in the dreaded Theology Room. I had written about the temptations of Jesus and offered an interpretation of Jesus struggling with self-reliance, power, and self-preservation. The critique came: “Being middle-class, would you read this story differently if you were…
By: Caleb Lu on October 27, 2023
There was a general hush over the room as our ultrasound technician took measurements for our first “growth scan”. The chipper answering of questions became a more muted “we’ll have to wait for the doctor to answer that”. We would discover in the following hour that the baby’s abdominal circumference was measuring small, an indicator…
By: Dinka Utomo on October 27, 2023
“Poverty was nature surviving in society; that the limitedness of food and the unlimitedness of men had come to an issue just when the promise of boundless increase of wealth burst in upon us made the irony only the more bitter.” -Karl Polanyi- On every occasion when I contemplate international travel, my preparations include…
By: Shonell Dillon on October 26, 2023
French lawyer, politician, and famous gastronome, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin became famous for the words‘‘Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es’’. These words were equivalent to what we now mimic when we say “you are what you eat” (‘Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are’).…
By: Jenny Dooley on October 26, 2023
The books assigned in recent weeks are difficult. I am not understanding every concept, nor reading them in their entirety. However, I am being challenged and hopefully changed by authors I never would have discovered on my own. I am noticing connections and pondering many questions with little time to answer them. My questions currently…
By: Jenny Steinbrenner Hale on October 26, 2023
My Mom’s eightieth birthday is this weekend. It will be the first time our extended family has been together since Christmas 2019, due to significant rifts that developed over Covid and political and cultural tensions. My family “derailed.”[1] Our postmodern climate, under pressure, created the perfect storm for a family clash between experience, reason, and…
By: Todd E Henley on October 26, 2023
All societies face the economic task of producing and providing for all members of society. Modern market societies are unique in assigning this responsibility to the marketplace, thereby creating entitlements to production for those with wealth, and depriving the poor of entitlement to food. All traditional societies have used non-market mechanisms based on cooperation and…
By: Esther Edwards on October 26, 2023
The Great Transformation, written by Karl Polanyi, “concentrated on the development of the market economy in the 19th century, with Polanyi presenting his belief that this form of economy was so socially divisive that it had no long-term future.”[1] His opening statement affirms this as he states “Nineteenth-century civilization has collapsed.”[2] This declaration of doom…
By: Russell Chun on October 26, 2023
Kapitalizmus – vadló futás, Capitalism – wild horse running – Hungarian Part 1 – What Polanyi says… Part 2 – What Clarks says…and a current Capitalist Part 3 – What my peers say… Part 4 – What Russ learned.. Part 1 – What Polanyi says… Apparently, I have become an audio learner. Perhaps because…
By: Adam Harris on October 26, 2023
I’ve been in full time ministry most of my vocational life, but while getting my master’s degree I took a detour into the business world for a few years. While working as a fitness trainer, a sales manager position opened that sold fitness training packages for a national gym chain. I was hesitant at first,…
